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Noticias en español, pgs. 18-19 For youth in Krakow, seeing will be ‘out of this world’

by Elise Harris and Kate Veik

Krakow, Poland, July 25 (CNA/EWTN News) - As To all people of good will, let us beg for the strength to resist the hatred that blinds us to our common humanity. thousands of youth are setting foot in Krakow for World Youth Day, many voiced their excitement not only to meet peers who share the same faith, but above all to see Pope Francis in person. Racial Tensions Spark Day of Prayer, For Ernest, a young pilgrim traveling from Zim- babwe, “that feeling is going to be out of this world. Peace Task Force With US Bishops It’s going to be out of this world.” Washington D.C., July 23 (CNA/EWTN News) “I have stressed the need to look toward additional - After several shootings and increased racial ten- ways of nurturing an open, honest and civil dialogue sions around the country, the head of the United on issues of race relations, restorative justice, mental States Conference of Catholic Bishops has called for health, economic opportunity, and addressing the a national day of prayer and appointed a task force question of pervasive gun violence,” said devoted to peace and unity. Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, the USCCB president. (see Racial Tensions, p. 4) Fr. Michael Buckley O.C.D. Celebrates 69 years as Carmelite Priest (Reprinted by permission of the Yountville Sun Newspaper) by Laura Madonna A giant mosaic of made out of selfie pictures that was created for the festival. Photograph: Jacek Bednarczyk/EPA Oakville Carmelite Father Michael Buckley, age 95, recent- ly observed his 69th anniversary as a priest. Father Michael In July 25 comments to CNA, Ernest said that he’s is also a living history book. always seen the Pope on TV, but never in person. He His parents were entwined with the Irish Republican missed Francis during his trip to Africa last year, Army. He studied at the Vatican, played rugby with the which included stops in Kenya, Uganda and the future Pope John Paul II, was a missionary in India, speaks Central African Republic, because he decided to go five languages and knows how to make wine from oranges. on a pilgrimage to Uganda, but arrived only after That’s not even the half of it. the Pope had left. Born in 1920 in County Kerry, Ireland, to a family of “People tell me it was really packed,” he said, five children, Father Michael went to school at 3 1/ 2 years adding that while it was a blessing to see the impact Fr. Michael Buckley O.C.D. (see Fr. Michael Buckley, p. 8) (see Krakow Youth, p. 4) Even One Human Life Whether there is an increase in the number and was already noted by the poet 230 years ago. Another severity of mass killings, shootings, bombings, and poet, John Donne in 1572, two hundred years before terroristic activities in general is probably debatable. Burns, wrote that famous poem: No Man is an Island. PRIESTLY No one can doubt the brutality or the senselessness Hopefully our awareness of this essential unity of all of the attacks but whether there has been an increase mankind increases daily especially as we hear about ORDINATION in frequency, it seems to me, is another question. brutality in one part of the world which surpasses the Attacks similar to the ones in Nice and Paris and previous week’s brutality in another part. No one of ANNIVERSARIES Orlando and Boston and San Bernardino have taken us can claim to be immune to this inhumanity and we place in more remote and underdeveloped areas of do not want to become immune to it. As painful as Rev. Gary Sumpter the world where the press coverage it is, we need to be affected by it. May August 25, 1979 is not quite so thorough. Those vic- we never become immune to this bru- tims, many of whom in the Middle tality as we have become practically Rev. Thomas Kyallo East are Christians, have the same immune to the brutality of abortion. August 8, 1985 claim to our concern and prayers as the victims in the US and France; No man is an island, Rev. Ramon Pons “any man’s death diminishes me”. Entire of itself, August 6, 1988 Each event is a further manifesta- Every man is a piece of the continent, tion of “man’s inhumanity to man”. A part of the main. This phrase is attributed to the poet If a clod be washed away by the sea, Prayer for Priests Robert Burns who in 1784 wrote a Europe is the less. Gracious and loving God, we thank poem titled, Dirge: Man was made From the Bishop As well as if a promontory were. your for the gift of our priests. to Mourn. One stanza of that poem As well as if a manor of thy friend’s Through them, we experience your follows: Bishop Robert F. Vasa is Or of thine own were: presence in the sacraments. the sixth bishop of the Any man’s death diminishes me, Diocese of Santa Rosa. Help our priests to be strong in their “Many and sharp the num’rous ills Because I am involved in mankind, vocation. Set their souls on fire Inwoven with our frame! And therefore never send to know for with love for your people. More pointed still we make ourselves, whom the bell tolls; Grant them the wisdom, understanding, Regret, remorse, and shame! It tolls for thee. and strength they need to follow in And man, whose heav’n-erected face the footsteps of Jesus. The smiles of love adorn, - That bell would indeed toll for our desiccated souls Inspire them with the vision of your Man’s inhumanity to man if we should ever fail to grieve the loss of any, even Makes countless thousands mourn! one, human life especially by one’s own hand or at the Kingdom. Give them the words they need hand of any other. to spread the Gospel. Allow them to I take little consolation that the manifestation of May God shine the light of His Merciful Face upon experience joy in their ministry. inhumanity which seems to be so prevalent today all of the victims of man’s inhumanity to man. ❖ Help them to become instruments of your . We ask this through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns as our Eternal Priest. Amen. CONTENTS

RACIAL TENSIONS SPARK DAY OF PRAYER, HAVE COURAGE...... 7 UNO VIDA HUMANA...... 18 PEACE TASK FORCE WITH US BISHOPS ...... 1 MESSAGE OF POPE FRANCIS FOR THE XXIX PREGUNTAS AL DIÁCONO MARIO FOR YOUTH IN KRAKOW, SEEING POPE FRANCIS WORLD YOUTH DAY...... 9 CONTIENE LA MISA PARTES BÍBLICAS?...... 18 WILL BE ‘OUT OF THIS WORLD’ ...... 1 NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING IT’S WORTH IT. NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL...... 19 FR. MICHAEL BUCKLEY O.C.D. JOIN THE REVOLUTION!...... 10 CELEBRATES 69 YEARS AS CARMELITE PRIEST...... 1 A BOOST FOR NFP...... 20 FR. ANDREW PACHECO EVEN ONE HUMAN LIFE ...... 2 WELCOMED TO HOME PARISH...... 11 NEED HELP RIGHT AWAY? MAKE MOTHER TERESA’S EMERGENCY NOVENA FOR TIMES WHEN YOU DON’T POPE SHAKES UP ...... 3 IN NEW BOOK, MILLENNIAL CATHOLIC WOMEN HAVE NINE DAYS TO PRAY...... 21 CHAT FAITH, LIFE AND DATING...... 11 AMERICANS SUPPORT HIGHER STANDARDS FOR CALENDAR...... 22 ABORTION CLINICS, POLL FINDS...... 5 HOW DID THE CATHOLIC GET HER NAME?...... 13 YOUNGEST US TRACK OLYMPIAN RELIES ON GOD HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOU ARE DECEIVED?.....6 WHEN TIMES GET TOUGH...... 23 NEWS BRIEFS...... 15 POPE RESPONDS TO VIOLENCE IN MUNICH AND KABUL YOUTH MINISTRY EVENTS…...... 23 WITH CALL FOR MORE PRAYER...... 6 CARDINAL DZIWISZ TALKS KRAKOW, JOHN PAUL II...... 17

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Vatican City, July 22, 2016 (CNA/EWTN News) - Amid modern challenges emerging from a culture which provides increasingly easier access to outside distractions, Pope Francis has issued new norms for women’s cloistered communities, which place a spe- cial emphasis on prayer and the centralization of communities. “Dear contemplative sisters, without you what would the Church be like, or those living on the fringes of humanity and ministering in the outposts of evangelization?” the Pope said in a new , published July 22. The Church, he said, “greatly esteems your life of complete self-giving. The Church counts on your prayers and on your self-sacrifice to bring today’s men and women to the good news of the Gospel. The Church needs you!” However, he also cautioned that the “silent and recollected peace of mind and heart” lived in con- templative live “can meet with subtle temptations.” The most serious of these, he said, is what the Desert Fathers called “the midday devil,” referring to “the temptation to listlessness, mere routine, lack of enthusiasm and paralyzing lethargy.” He also cautioned against the temptations presented Since prayer “is the heart of contemplative life,” Pope Francis also established that “each monastery is to by the current digital culture, which “has a decisive review its daily horarium (schedule) to see if it is centered on the Lord. influence in shaping our thoughts and the way we relate to the world and, in particular, to other people.” “Contemplative communities are not immune from temptations that come with them, he issued new the Pope voiced in the constitution. this cultural climate,” he said, and while recognizing norms on 12 areas of discernment and renewal for In order to help in the drafting of the norms, Francis the benefits of media and communications, particu- , particularly the monastic tradition. provided a series of points based on his reflections on larly in the process of formation, urged a “prudent These areas are: formation, prayer, the Word of God, each of the 12 themes, which serve as a guideline for discernment” aimed at ensuring these means are truly the sacraments of the Eucharist and Reconciliation, what the new norms will consist of. put at the service of the community, “and do not fraternal life in community, autonomy, federations, In these guidelines, he established that individual become occasions for wasting time or escaping from the , work, silence, communications media monasteries “are to give special attention to ongoing the demands of fraternal life in community.” and formation,” which he said “is the foundation for every The new norms also encourage communities of the In the 21-page document, consisting of 37 articles, stage of formation, beginning with initial formation.” same spirituality, such as , , Pope Francis offered a reflection on each of the points, He said that to ensure this ongoing formation, , etc., to centralize into one federation, explaining the nature of each and why they are essen- federations of religious communities will promote a however, the specifics of these federations haven’t yet tial for the life and vocation of contemplative women greater cooperation between monasteries “through been defined. religious. the exchange of formational materials and the use of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Constitution “Vultum Dei In light of these reflections, Pope Francis estab- digital means of communication,” though he urged Quaerere,” or “Seek the Face of God” on cloistered lished that, in reference to canon 20 of the Code of the “due discretion” in using these means. women religious was signed June 29, on the feast of Canon Law and with the publication and promulga- Monasteries, he said, “are to pay special attention Peter and Paul, and was released July 22, the tion of the constitution, any canons in the Code of to vocational and spiritual discernment, ensuring that feast of St. Mary Magdalene. Canon law which directly contradict the articles of the candidates receive personalized guidance,” and must An apostolic constitution is the highest level of new constitution “are derogated,” meaning canceled. ensure that “ample time” is set aside for the initial decree to be issued by a Pope, and is addressed to More specifically, he said the articles containing formation process. the public. They typically focus on solemn matters norms and dispositions found in Pius XII’s 1950 While establishing international and multicultural of the Church such as the promulgation of laws or Apostolic Constitution “Sponsa Christi,” the Statuta communities is good and a sign of the universality of definitive teachings. Generalia Monialium, the Congregation for Religious’ the community’s charism, Francis stressed that “the In Vultum Dei Quaerere, the Pope said that contem- 1950 “Instruction Inter Praeclara,” the Congregation recruitment of candidates from other countries solely plative monastic life, which is mainly composed of for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of for the sake of ensuring the survival of a monastery is women, is a “signpost” and reminder of life’s ultimate Apostolic Life’s 1999 Instruction “Verbi Sponsa” on to be absolutely avoided.” meaning. Contemplative life, he said, is “a priceless the contemplative life and enclosure of , are also In order to ensure this doesn’t happen, “certain and indispensable gift which the Holy Spirit continues derogated. criteria are to be determined,” he said. He also stipu- to raise up in the Church.” The new norms will be drafted by the Congregation lated that to ensure “a high quality of formation,” However, as a means of assisting contemplative for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of monasteries should promote common houses for women to “attain the goal of their specific vocation” Apostolic Life, which will eventually result in amend- initial formation. amid the rapid changes in modern society and the ments made to Canon Law which reflect the wishes (see Cloisters, p. 7

8/5 Blessed Frederic Janssoone ❖ 8/6 The Transfiguration ❖ 8/7 St. Cajetan ❖ 8/8 St. Dominic ❖ 8/9 Blessed John of Reiti NORTH COAST CATHOLIC / AUGUST 2016 / www.srdiocese.org 3 (Racial Tensions, cont. from page 1) statement. concerns of community members and law enforce- “The Day of Prayer and special Task Force will Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was shot ment, and work to rebuild relationships and resolve help us advance in that direction. By stepping for- July 5 after an encounter with police in Baton Rouge. conflicts. The group will also present a report on ward to embrace the suffering, through unified, One day after Sterling’s death, an African American their activities and recommendations at the Novem- concrete action animated by the love of Christ, we man in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, was shot four ber meeting of the USCCB. hope to nurture peace and build bridges of commu- times by a police officer and later died. Philando “I am honored to lead this Task Force which will nication and mutual aid in our own communities.” Castile, age 32, had been pulled over for an alleged assist my bishops, individually and as a The newest statement and task force reflect senti- broken tail-light. On July 7, five Dallas police offi- group, to accompany suffering communities on the ments in a previous statement from Archbishop cers were killed in what authorities called a “sniper path toward peace and reconciliation,” Archbishop Kurtz released earlier this month, urging prayer, ambush” at the end of a peaceful protest against Gregory said in a statement. “We are one body in reflection, and dialogue following racially-related police shootings of African Americans. In the fol- Christ, so we must walk with our brothers and sisters shootings and violence in Baton Rouge, Minneapo- lowing days, police officers were also shot and killed and renew our commitment to promote healing. The lis, and Dallas. in racially-related incidents in Baton Rouge and suffering is not somewhere else, or someone else’s; “To all people of good will, let us beg for the Kansas City, Kansas. it is our own, in our very dioceses.” strength to resist the hatred that blinds us to our The National Day of Prayer for Peace in Our Com- common humanity. To my brothers and sisters in munities will be celebrated Sept. 9, the feast of St. The announcement of the day of prayer and the Christ, let us gather at the Cross of Jesus. Our Savior Peter Claver, the patron saint of African Ameri- creation of the task force follows several prayer vigils suffered at the hands of humanity’s worst impulses, cans. The task force, which will be headed by former and peace efforts in the , and comes but He did not lose hope in us or in His heavenly USCCB president Archbishop Wilton Gregory of at the end of a novena for peace launched by the father. Love overcomes evil,” he said in his July 8 Atlanta, will collect and distribute resources, listen to Knights of Columbus following the shootings. ❖

(Krakow Youth, cont. from page 1) during the event. Groups of priests, nuns and reli- ward to participating in Mass with Pope July 31 to Francis left in Uganda, “I’m really excited and I’m gious can be seen throughout the main areas of the mark the official close of WYD. really expecting to see the Pope” in person. WYD events approaching youth and handing them “I think it’d be great to see him, especially if I could Ernest said this is his first time attending a WYD, holy cards as they engage with them on faith and see him up close. If I could get that I’m going to but that after hearing his peers talk about their expe- their communities. love it,” he said, explaining that he’s anxious to hear riences in the 2011 and 2013 gatherings in Madrid Nothing, however, can outdo the excitement the Francis talk about the Year of Mercy. and Rio de Janiero, he decided to go. youth feel about meeting thousands of their peers “I want to hear him talk about the Year of Mercy, “They say it was a blessed experience, that’s why from all over the world and seeing Pope Francis in how we can be better, how we can show mercy to I’m here. I’ve never seen the Pope, so I want to see person. others. I really want to learn a lot from him,” Majd him for the first time! It’s so great to be here.” Maria, a young woman born in Guayaquil, Ecua- said, saying he believes WYD will “definitely make Ernest and his group, numbering around 30-40 dor but who is now living in Orlando, Fl., told CNA the Jubilee better for us.” people, are just a small part of the more than 300,000 that this is her first WYD, and the fact that it’s being “I’m hoping that this will definitely deepen my pilgrims expected to arrive to Krakow this week for led by a American Pope is “awesome.” faith and that I can bring a lot of great souvenirs WYD. World Youth Day officially kicks off July 25 Even though she has lived in the United States from here and that my family would learn from me and lasts through July 31, with Pope Francis arriving since she was a toddler, Maria had a lot of family still my ways and the ways of Him.” ❖ July 27. It will be the second WYD of his pontificate. living in Ecuador, and because of that was invited to Most pilgrims traveling to Krakow will be arriv- travel to WYD with their group. ing from other pilgrimages they’ve made to places “I honestly didn’t expect it to be this big or to be such as Rome and other important sites in and as organized, but you feel the warmth of everyone around Poland such as the Shrine of Czestochowa, and people give you so many nice gifts and it’s an the Divine Mercy Sanctuary, and John Paul II’s amazing experience,” she said, adding even though hometown of Wadowice, which sits some 30 miles WYD hasn’t officially started, everything she has southwest of Krakow. expected “has really just come true.” In the days leading up to Pope Francis’ arrival, “There’s so much going on, there’s so many people groups of pilgrims are participating in several activi- that I’ve met, and I’ve learned new languages like ties, including special sessions of catechesis, as well Polish and German. It’s been great. It’s met all of my as a four-day youth festival and the possibility to expectations if not exceeded them.” visit a vocations center. Likewise, Majd, a youth from Australia, told CNA The catechesis sessions will be offered July 27-29 as that his group arrived to Krakow Sunday, and that so part of the official WYD events, and will be preached far, “our experience here is absolutely lit.” in different languages by bishop from around the “It’s excellent, I love it. It’s really fun, fantastic,” he world on the gathering’s official theme: “Blessed are said, explaining that before coming to Krakow, their the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” group traveled for 24 hours to get to Italy, where they Many of the catechesis sessions will take place in visited important sites in Assisi, Siena, Florence and Wadowice, as well as in churches and other selected Pisa before heading to Warsaw, Czestochowa and venues in Krakow in order to ensure that all youth finally Krakow. will be able to participate. Having participated in the 2008 WYD in Sydney, During the youth festival, which lasts from July Majd said that despite having spent only a few days 26-29, a religious, artistic and cultural program will in Poland, he so far prefers the Krakow experience. take place in the evenings, during which youth will “The area is quite nice, the culture here is amazing, be able participate in concerts, exhibitions, work- the people here are really welcoming. I really want shops, sporting events and theater. to see more people,” he said, adding that for him, They will even have the opportunity to perform “there’s a lot more things I could probably learn from in front of the other youth as a means of expressing here than I would in Australia.” and sharing their culture with the others. Majd said this will be his first time seeing Pope Vocations are another area of heavy emphasis Francis in person, and that he’s really looking for- August 3: St. Peter Julian Eymard

4 NORTH COAST CATHOLIC / AUGUST 2016 / www.srdiocese.org 8/10 St. Lawrence ❖ 8/11 St. Clare ❖ 8/12 St. Porcarius and Companions Americans Support Higher Standards for Abortion Clinics, Poll Finds

New Haven, Conn., July 25, 2016 (CNA)

A new poll released Monday found that an over- whelming majority of Americans believe abortion clinics should be held to the same medical and safety standards as other outpatient surgery centers. The survey follows last month’s Supreme Court ruling striking down a Texas law regulating abor- tion clinics on the grounds that it placed an “undue burden” on a women’s “right to an abortion.” The case had challenged two Texas regulations of abortion clinics. One regulation said that abortion- ists must have admitting privileges at a local hospital in case of a medical emergency at their clinic. The other said that clinic buildings must meet the stan- dards of ambulatory surgery centers: they must have proper sanitation, staffing, and medical experts on hand to deal with medical emergencies. Seventy-eight percent of those surveyed in the July 2016 poll believe that abortion clinics should be held to the same standards as other outpatient surgery centers. The agreement was widespread across the board, including 77 percent of African Americans and 82 percent of Latinos, in addition to 77 percent of women, and 84 percent of millennials. Seventy-eight percent of those surveyed in the July 2016 poll believe that abortion clinics should be held to the Even 74 percent of those who consider themselves same standards as other outpatient surgery centers. “pro-choice” agreed that abortion clinics should meet the standards of other outpatient surgical cen- ters. Furthermore, 70 percent of Americans said that restrictions has been consistently around 8 in 10 for doctors who perform abortions to be required to the better part of a decade,” said Barbara Carvalho, have hospital admitting privileges. director of the Marist Poll. “Though self-identifica- This included 71 percent of women, 77 percent of tion as pro-life or pro-choice can vary substantially millennials, and 78 percent of Latinos. Both those from year to year, the support for restrictions is who identify as pro-life and those who identify as quite stable.” pro-choice showed a 71 percent rate of support for The Marist poll also found that the majority of this requirement. Americans—62 percent­—oppose taxpayer funding The survey, conducted July 5-12, 2016 by the of abortion, although this number dropped by 6 Marist Institute for Public Opinion and commis- percent from last year. sioned by the Knights of Columbus, polled 1,009 Opposition to taxpayer-funded abortion in the adults in the U.S., with a 3.1 percentage point margin 2016 poll was found among 65 percent of African of error. Americans, 61 percent of Latinos, and 45 percent of In addition to asking Americans about their those who say they are pro-choice, in addition to 84 views on medical standards for abortion facilities, percent of Republicans, 61 percent of Independents the survey revisited questions from previous polls and 44 percent of Democrats. involving abortion restrictions. Remaining steady from last year, Americans by It found that 78 percent of Americans support about a 20-point margin believed that medical pro- substantial restrictions on abortion and would limit fessionals should not be forced to perform abortions it to the first trimester of pregnancy at most. against their conscience. While this number is down from last year’s Marist This included 61 percent of Latinos polled and 41 survey, which found in January 2015 that 84 percent percent of those who identify as pro-choice. of Americans supported substantial abortion restric- tions, the poll director said the numbers are still very The results of the poll can be found on the Knights stable throughout the years. of Columbus website: http://www.kofc.org/un/en/ “The majority of Americans in favor of abortion news/polls ❖ August 2: Our Lady of Andels

8/13 St. Pontian and St. Hippolytus ❖ 8/14 St. Maxmilian Kolbe ❖ 8/15 The Assumption of the Blessed Mary NORTH COAST CATHOLIC / AUGUST 2016 / www.srdiocese.org 5 How do you know when you are deceived? by Chris Lyford

Most answers focus on after the state of deception is your ‘blue dot’? You could say, “hey, I want to be Our conscience is like the GPS-WIKI; we are born over: “When you find out…” or something like that. in Mendocino, so I’ll just tell my GPS that I’m in with a standard operating system that has ‘True North’ But my question is really a statement. The hard Mendocino regardless of my true location. Little by pre-programmed. We can end up being born in any answer is “you don’t know when you ARE deceived; little you ‘re-align’ the true location of the dot to cor- one of millions of different places on the map, but cause you’re, you know; deceived.” respond with your ‘current’ location. no matter where we end up being born, we already Work with me on this… The point I’m making is that once you are off course have True North, or a sense of what is true, pre-pro- When you are in the State of Deception, by defini- a little bit, after a couple hours of driving, you will be grammed into our GPS (conscience). As we grow, tion you are operating with a faulty sense of reality. ‘off course’ by a lot. our parents, peers, environment, and society have a Some small (or large) part of the overall equation that You might have a little sense of doubt every once final effect on how we end up programming our GPS. constitutes your zeitgeist (world view) is in error. But in a while as you drive along; instead of Costal Pines, Eventually, the hope is that we get to a point where like a mistake in simple math, the results can end up you see towering Douglas Firs, etc., but instead of we re-tool our GPS to “The Way – The Truth: Jesus being catastrophic (like for a bridge, a walkway in a entertaining the possibility that your current grasp on Christ”. We are still free to drive anywhere we want, hotel, or a nuclear power plant). reality is skewed, you sweep it away and re-confirm but our WIKI edits now adjust to Him as the True When you are deceived it’s like your GPS has been that you are the source of accuracy when it comes to North. hacked. North is really South, and your destination your blue dot, not your GPS, and little by little you No matter how far afield you may find yourself – in really isn’t beautiful downtown Fortuna; it’s really change the whole orientation of your GPS because some backwoods-spooky-burg, for now, you can still Willits. (no offence Willits I personally like the “Gate- YOU have become its point of reference. You could reset. This is Mercy. way to the Redwoods”). But with a GPS that is not be completely unaware that the sum total of the minor You just need to swallow your pride, pull over and attached to reality, you drive happily along listening decisions you made in ‘re-assigning’ your true loca- do that thing that proves you are human: ask for direc- to your ‘vacation playlist’ and enjoying your sense of tion has put you in a place where you are operating tions. ❖ accomplishment. You authentically believe you are on without a reference point to REALITY. the right track, and so your conscience is ‘free’. If you have entrusted your life to a GPS that is Or what if our GPS’s worked more like WIKI’s, detached from reality, you are in for a surprise once Chris Lyford is the Communications Director for making it possible to edit or change the location of you reach your destination. the Diocese of Santa Rosa, California Pope Responds to Violence in Munich and Kabul with Call

for More Prayer August 6: The Transfiguration by Ann Schneible Letters Policy , July 24 (CNA/EWTN News) - On “I am near to the families of the victims and the Email: [email protected] Sunday, Pope Francis responded to recent acts of wounded,” he said. “I invite you to join in my prayer, Write: Letters to the Editor violence in Germany and Afghanistan, expressing his in order that the Lord may inspire all good and fra- North Coast Catholic closeness to the families of the victims, and stressing ternal resolutions.” 985 Airway Ct., the importance of prayer in the face of threats against In the face of seemingly “insurmountable” difficul- Santa Rosa, CA 95403 “safety and peace.” ties, and dark “prospects of safety and peace,” the Pope “At this time, our spirit is once more shaken by the said, our prayer should be “all the more persistent.” sad news relating to the deplorable acts of terrorism At least 80 people were killed and 230 people Name, hometown, and daytime phone and violence which have caused suffering and death,” wounded after two explosions struck the Afghan city number for verification required. Short the Pope said in an appeal after the weekly Angelus of Kabul on Saturday, Reuters reports. The Islamic letters only, no more than 150 words. Letters at the Vatican. State has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack, may be edited for clarity or space. In his July 24 address, the Pontiff spoke in refer- which hit the capital city’s Shi’ite Hazara minority. ence to “the dramatic events in Munich, Germany, The July 23 attack on Kabul is the latest in a string NOTE: Views of correspondents do not and Kabul, Afghanistan, where the lives of numerous of attacks worldwide attributed to ISIS. Among the necessarily reflect those of this publication. innocent people have been lost.” (see Respond to Violence, p. 8)

6 NORTH COAST CATHOLIC / AUGUST 2016 / www.srdiocese.org 8/16 St. Stephen of Hungary ❖ 8/17 Blessed Joan Delanoue ❖ 8/18 St. Jane Frances De Chantal Have Courage by Julie Sparacio

One of the most difficult and rewarding parts of my The impact of childhood sexual trauma affects sary, so they don’t have to. What a privilege that has ministry has been to work with victims of clergy each individual differently. Depending on the per- been! At the same time, I can say that it has been at sexual abuse. Fortunately, there sonality, the situation within the times difficult, painful and disheartening. So I have haven’t been that many cases over the family, the relationship with their learned from them a lot about courage. If they can last 13 years. I am grateful to each and abuser, all have an effect on the sit before me, a stranger, and tell the most personal every person who I have spoken to; depth of trauma. It is impossible to details of such a horrific experience, then surely I can I have been blessed to witness their standardize the response—for some stand and argue on their behalf. courage, their tenacity, their strength children the lowest level of abuse The most important thing I have learned though is in their brokenness. can do grave damage, and other chil- to stand for truth. Not just in this, but in all things. It Most of the individuals I met with dren are only minimally affected by is rarely easy and there have been times when it made have moved from victim to survivor. more serious abuse. Research has me a target. I believe that God calls us to that, to be Something terrible and traumatic shown that one of the things that can honest and transparent in our dealings with others. happened to them as a child, but Guarding the Vulnerable have the most impact is the initial But more, I believe he calls us to have courage, to they have learned or are learning to response when they first reveal what stand fast for that which is right. Maybe your courage face it, to come to grips with it, and has occurred. won’t be speaking out publically; maybe it will be just Julie Sparacio is Diocesan to recognize that they have survived director of Child and It has not always been easy to speaking truth to family or friends. I believe you will it. Witnessing their despair as they Youth Protection. advocate for a victim. Because it is know when God wants you to speak up—that uncom- relate what occurred so many years impossible to standardize the impact, fortable feeling hangs around until you either speak previously, the ongoing impact on sometimes, the response to their or squash it. In the latest adaptation of Cinderella, their lives, and then watching as they grew and pro- story has been hesitant or questioning. In my job as the mother says to her daughter as she lie dying— gressed to a different place, a more healing place has Victim Assistance Coordinator, it has often been my “Have courage and be kind.” So even Cinderella got been awe inspiring. role to present their story, to ‘fight’ for them if neces- the message! ❖

(Cloisters, cont. from page 3) governance, dignity and quality of liturgical, fraternal they got back were “rich” and useful, so a synthesis Since prayer “is the heart of contemplative life,” and spiritual life, sign value and participation in life was compiled and given to the competent authorities Pope Francis also established that “each monastery of the local Church, self-sufficiency and a suitably so that the constitution could eventually be written. is to review its daily horarium (schedule) to see if it appointed monastery building.” He said there are no plans to issue a similar con- is centered on the Lord.” Pope Francis also stipulated that at least initially, stitution for cloistered male religious, given the fact Community celebrations, he said, should also be “all monasteries are to be part of a federation.” These that the majority of contemplative communities are reviewed “to see if they constitute an authentic and federation, he said, can be established not only on a composed of women. vital encounter with the Lord.” geographical basis, but also on “an affinity of spirit Although there is a vocational crisis throughout He placed special emphasis on the use of “lectio and traditions. across the globe, the archbishop noted that there are divina,” traditional form of Benedictine prayer that If “for some special reason” a monastery can’t join 4,000 contemplative communities in the world, with focuses on the prayerful and contemplative reading a federation, permission to remain outside of it will the highest numbers being “in Italy and Spain.” of scripture. be sought from the . Carmelites “singularly possess…the most numer- Each community, he said, “is to establish fitting The specifics, he added, will be in the norms drafted ous” contemplative community in the Church, he times and means for respecting this requirement of by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life said, noting that others such as Benedictines, Domin- reading and listening, ruminatio (pondering), prayer, and Societies of Apostolic Life, who will determine icans, and are also high in number. ❖ contemplation and sharing of the sacred Scriptures.” the responsibilities of the federation’s president and Francis also stressed the importance of sharing the council. “transforming experience” of God’s Word with priests, Francis also specified that even if some monaster- , other consecrated and laity, and insisted ies receive a small income, it doesn’t mean they are that each monastery determine how this “spiritual “exempted from the obligation of labor.” outreach” can be achieved. He also required that each monastery, in its plan for The guidelines offered by the Pope also stressed community life, find a “fitting means” of expressing that in addition to “carefully preparing its Eucharistic the ascetic discipline of monastic life in order to make celebrations,” each monastery must “set aside appro- it “more prophetic and credible.” priate times for Eucharistic adoration, also inviting Once each individual institute has adapted the the faithful of the local Church to take part.” articles of their constitutions or rules to the new regu- He noted that particular attention must also be lations laid out in Vultum Dei Quaerere, they must be given to the selection of chaplains, confessors and submitted to the Holy See for approval. spiritual directors. During the July 22 presentation of the constitu- The daily schedule for each community must also tion, Archbishop Jose Rodriguez Carballo O.F.M., include “suitable moments of silence, in order to secretary for the Congregation for Institutes of Con- foster a climate of prayer and contemplation.” secrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, told In terms of autonomy, Francis stressed that juridi- journalists that the constitution was “a gift” from cal autonomy must be matched with “a genuine Pope Francis to the Church. autonomy of life” entailing a certain number of sisters The process started two years ago with a question- with “the vitality needed to practice and spread the naire the congregation sent to cloistered communities charism, a real capacity to provide for formation and around the world, he said, explaining that the answers August 23: St. Rose of Lima

8/19 St. John Eudes ❖ 8/20 St. Bernard ❖ 8/21 St. Pius X ❖ 8/22 Mary, Our Queen NORTH COAST CATHOLIC / AUGUST 2016 / www.srdiocese.org 7 (Fr. Michael Buckley, cont. from page 1) “The wonderful examples of priests whom I knew (Respond to Violence cont. from page 6) old. His first two languages are Gaelic and English. helped me to decide on the priesthood,” he said. “The most recent attacks include an axe attack on a train He never had the chance to know his Dad because thought that what moved me most was to become a in Würzburg, Germany last Monday, in which several his mother was pregnant with Michael when his missionary priest.” passengers were critically wounded. The previous father was taken away. Father Michael entered the Carmelites in Septem- week, 84 people were killed in Nice, France when His father was in the Royal Irish Constabulary ber, 1939 in Loughrea, County Galway, and began his a Tunisian man intentionally drove a large truck (RIC), the police force of the British occupation and , following the course of studies of Carmelite through a crowded beach street at high speed during recognized as semi­ military. Facing a difficult loss house in Dublin, and he attended University College, a Bastille Day celebration. of income if he resigned, his father believed he must Dublin. Pope Francis further responded to the attack in do so because staying in the RIC meant that he was He was ordained March 1, 1947 and went to Rome Munich, expressing his condolences to the local arch- maintaining British control over Ireland. for studies in Theology and Sacred Scripture. He bishop in a telegram early Sunday morning. “My father lost his life in the fight for indepen- learned Italian, Spanish, a wee bit of French and At least nine people were killed and more than dence,” said Father Michael. “His last letter to my Hebrew for scripture. 30 injured on Friday evening after an 18-year-old mother, smuggled out of prison on a scrap of paper, During his studies in the Angelicum University, gunman—who reports have named Ali David Son- requested her to have the children well educated. My Father Karol Wojtyla (the future Pope John Paul II) boly—opened fire at the Olympia shopping mall in mother honored his request. was a student there. Munich. His father was executed as an enemy of the govern- “We played soccer together,” he recalled. “I’m sure Police believe the teenager had no known ties to ment. the present pope wouldn’t do that.” the Islamic State, but he was reportedly inspired by His father’s generous salary allowed his mother, In 1951, after his studies were finished, he returned Anders Behring Breivik, the mass murderer who through careful management of money and doing to Dublin and was appointed on the staff of its Study killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, according to domestic chores herself, to keep a comfortable life House. the BBC. and educate the children. She moved the family to His ambition to be a missionary priest was to be The Pope learned “with dismay” of the attack in Castle Island to live with relatives and to provide realized. Munich, which included the killing of young people, opportunities. “In 1958, our Father General needed a person to according to the telegram addressed to the archbishop Father Michael recalls growing up in Castle Island teach in a Pontifical Seminary in India,” he said. “I of Munich and Freising, Cardinal and as a carefree time. volunteered for that position. It was a singular expe- signed by Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro “Many were the times when one of my siblings and rience for me because it was a seminary where there Parolin. I would come home from school on Fridays, drop were different Church Rites—Eastern and Western.” “His Holiness shares in the suffering of the survi- our school bags into the front hall and take off walk- He remained there for 11 years. vors, and he expresses his closeness to them,” and he ing five miles to visit my uncle’s farm,” he recalled. In1970 he came to the El Carmelo Retreat House in “prayerfully entrusts the departed to God’s mercy,” “Sometimes we would stay the whole weekend. There Redlands, Calif., and has been Provincial in Ireland the telegram reads. were no phones, so my uncle never knew if we were from 1978 to 1981and subsequently Provincial at the In the message, the pontiff expressed his sympathy coming, but when we arrived, we were always wel- Carmelites in retreat work. to all those affected by the incident, and his gratitude comed with open arms.” At Redlands, he learned to make orange wine. towards rescue workers for their “generous and caring There was only one motor car in the town of 2,000. “At our annual festival, we sold large tumblers of commitment.” “We had our bicycles to get around and our two freshly squeezed orange juice for $1.00,” he remi- “Pope Francis prays that Christ, the Lord of life, feet,” he said. “My mother played the accordion and nisced. “I knew a man who made wine from grapes, may give everyone comfort and consolation,” the taught us children how to sing Irish patriotic songs, and he told me you can make wine out of any fruit. telegram reads, “and he imparts to the his Apostolic which she thought would have made our father So I bought a little wine-making equipment and made blessing as a pledge of hope.” ❖ h appy.” sure that the wine was only nine percent alcohol. At Primary school was free until age 14. Father Michael first, people hesitated to taste it, but the hesitation then went 15 miles away to boarding school, to what didn’t last long.” he calls, “the old manner of university.” At 95, Father Michael is the oldest member of the Carmelites of the Province of California. “We received classical education, including Greek While no formal celebration is announced, it has and Latin. We were able to read Homer, Julius Caesar been posed. “Since 1990, I’ve been here in Oakville,” and Cicero, which is useless nowadavs, but then it he said. “I still can lecture, and I have a small served me well. Our purpose was to be a formed class and hear confessions in Spanish and English.” Aristotelian gentleman,” he explained. Father Michael possesses a fantastic memory and a repertoire of stories that some can’t even imagine. “My mother spent so much of our money on books that we had to learn to memorize. I still have all the famous orations of Irish masters in my mind.” Having come through his life essentially with other’s memories of his father, including older brother who was knocked down by soldiers as he watched his dad being dragged away, Father Michael does not judge them. “They were rough and bitter people, but healing comes, and we can go on with equanimity and a better sense of judgement. Those men had motives that we can’t judge anymore,” he stated. Father Michael explained that Pope Francis has invited the entire Catholic Church to refashion itself as a place, not of judgement or condemnation, but of pardon and merciful love. Therefore, 2016 is known as Fr. Michael Buckley as a Young Priest. The Year of Mercy. “To encounter mercy is to encoun- ter God. It can transform your life, your relationships, At the end of high school, at age 19, every young your work and your ability to embrace and experience person thought about the future, and for boys, priest- all of life,” he explained. Father Michael appears to live hood was one option. what he preaches. ❖ August 11: St. Clare

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“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom The Beatitudes of Jesus are new and revolutionary. 3. Blessed are the poor in spirit... of heaven.” (Mt 5:3) They present a model of happiness contrary to what is usually communicated by the media and by the The first Beatitude, our theme for the next World Dear Young Friends, prevailing wisdom. A worldly way of thinking finds Youth Day, says that the poor in spirit are blessed for How vividly I recall the remarkable meeting we had it scandalous that God became one of us and died on theirs is the kingdom of heaven. At a time when so in Rio de Janeiro for the Twenty-eighth World Youth a cross! According to the logic of this world, those many people are suffering as a result of the financial Day. It was a great celebration of faith and fellowship! whom Jesus proclaimed blessed are regarded as use- crisis, it might seem strange to link poverty and hap- The wonderful people of Brazil welcomed us with less, “losers.” What is glorified is success at any cost, piness. How can we consider poverty a blessing? open arms, like the statue of Christ the Redeemer affluence, the arrogance of power and self-affirmation First of all, let us try to understand what it means which looks down from the hill of Corcovado over the at the expense of others. to be “poor in spirit.” When the Son of God became magnificent expanse of Copacabana beach. There, on Jesus challenges us, young friends, to take seriously man, he chose the path of poverty and self-emptying. the seashore, Jesus renewed his call to each one of us his approach to life and to decide which path is right As Saint Paul said in his letter to the Philippians: “Let to become his missionary disciples. May we perceive for us and leads to true joy. This is the great challenge the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, this call as the most important thing in our lives and of faith. Jesus was not afraid to ask his disciples if they who, though he was in the form of God, did not count share this gift with others, those near and far, even to truly wanted to follow him or if they preferred to take equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied the distant geographical and existential peripheries another path (cf. Jn 6:67). himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in of our world. Simon Peter had the courage to reply: “Lord, to human likeness” (2:5-7). Jesus is God who strips him- The next stop on our intercontinental youth pil- whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal self of his glory. Here we see God’s choice to be poor: grimage will be in Krakow in 2016. As a way of life” (Jn 6:68). If you too are able to say “yes” to Jesus, he was rich and yet he became poor in order to enrich accompanying our journey together, for the next your lives will become both meaningful and fruitful. us through his poverty (cf. 2 Cor 8:9). This is the three years I would like to reflect with you on the mystery we contemplate in the crib when we see the Beatitudes found in the Gospel of Saint Matthew (5:1- 2. The courage to be happy Son of God lying in a manger, and later on the cross, 12). This year we will begin by reflecting on the first where his self-emptying reaches its culmination. Beatitude: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is What does it mean to be “blessed” (makarioi in The Greek adjective ptochós (poor) does not have a the kingdom of heaven” (Mt 5:3). For 2015 I suggest: Greek)? To be blessed means to be happy. Tell me: Do purely material meaning. It means “a beggar”, and it “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” you really want to be happy? In an age when we are should be seen as linked to the Jewish notion of the (Mt 5:8). Then, in 2016, our theme will be: “Blessed constantly being enticed by vain and empty illusions anawim, “God’s poor.” It suggests lowliness, a sense of are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy” (Mt 5:7). of happiness, we risk settling for less and “thinking one’s limitations and existential poverty. The anawim small” when it comes to the meaning of life. Think trust in the Lord, and they know that they can count 1. The revolutionary power of the Beatitudes big instead! Open your hearts! As Blessed Piergiorgio on him. Frassati once said, “To live without faith, to have no As Saint Therese of the Child Jesus clearly saw, by It is always a joyful experience for us to read and heritage to uphold, to fail to struggle constantly to his incarnation Jesus came among us as a poor beggar, reflect on the Beatitudes! Jesus proclaimed them in defend the truth: this is not living. It is scraping by. We asking for our love. The Catechism of the Catholic his first great sermon, preached on the shore of the should never just scrape by, but really live” (Letter to Church tells us that “man is a beggar before God” sea of Galilee. There was a very large crowd, so Jesus I. Bonini, 27 February 1925). In his homily on the day (No. 2559) and that prayer is the encounter of God’s went up on the mountain to teach his disciples. That is of Piergiorgio Frassati’s beatification (20 May 1990), thirst and our own thirst (No. 2560). why it is known as “the ”. In the John Paul II called him “a man of the Beatitudes” Saint Francis of Assisi understood perfectly the Bible, the mountain is regarded as a place where God (AAS 82 [1990], 1518). secret of the Beatitude of the poor in spirit. Indeed, reveals himself. Jesus, by preaching on the mount, If you are really open to the deepest aspirations when Jesus spoke to him through the leper and from reveals himself to be a divine teacher, a new Moses. of your hearts, you will realize that you possess an the crucifix, Francis recognized both God’s grandeur What does he tell us? He shows us the way to life, unquenchable thirst for happiness, and this will allow and his own lowliness. In his prayer, the Poor Man the way that he himself has taken. Jesus himself is you to expose and reject the “low cost” offers and of Assisi would spend hours asking the Lord: “Who the way, and he proposes this way as the path to true approaches all around you. When we look only for are you?” “Who am I?” He renounced an affluent happiness. Throughout his life, from his birth in the success, pleasure and possessions, and we turn these and carefree life in order to marry “Lady Poverty”, to stable in Bethlehem until his death on the cross and into idols, we may well have moments of exhilaration, imitate Jesus and to follow the Gospel to the letter. his resurrection, Jesus embodied the Beatitudes. All an illusory sense of satisfaction, but ultimately we Francis lived in imitation of Christ in his poverty and the promises of God’s Kingdom were fulfilled in him. become enslaved, never satisfied, always looking for in love for the poor—for him the two were inextrica- In proclaiming the Beatitudes, Jesus asks us to more. It is a tragic thing to see a young person who bly linked—like two sides of one coin. follow him and to travel with him along the path “has everything,” but is weary and weak. You might ask me, then: What can we do, specifi- of love, the path that alone leads to eternal life. It Saint John, writing to young people, told them: cally, to make poverty in spirit a way of life, a real part is not an easy journey, yet the Lord promises us his “You are strong, and the word of God abides in you, of our own lives? I will reply by saying three things. grace and he never abandons us. We face so many and you have overcome the evil one” (1 Jn 2:14). First of all, try to be free with regard to material challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the Young people who choose Christ are strong: they are things. The Lord calls us to a Gospel lifestyle marked struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of fed by his word and they do not need to ‘stuff them- by sobriety, by a refusal to yield to the culture of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful to our selves’ with other things! Have the courage to swim consumerism. This means being concerned with call to holiness, and many others. But if we open the against the tide. Have the courage to be truly happy! the essentials and learning to do without all those door to Jesus and allow him to be part of our lives, if Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway unneeded extras which hem us in. Let us learn to be we share our joys and sorrows with him, then we will culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable detached from possessiveness and from the idolatry experience the peace and joy that only God, who is of taking on responsibility and facing the great chal- of money and lavish spending. Let us put Jesus first. infinite love, can give. lenges of life! (see World Youth Day, p. 20)

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10 NORTH COAST CATHOLIC / AUGUST 2016 / www.srdiocese.org Fr. Andrew Pacheco Welcomed to Home Parish

This is a brief chat with newly ordained Fr. Andrew Are there any touching anecdotes? Pacheco who has just completed his first month of One thing came to mind, the weekend I was here, ministry as a priest of the Diocese of Santa Rosa. there is a woman who is a Sacristan and who trains We’ll give Fr. Andrew a little more time before we the altar boys who greeted me, and it was the same ask him to share in more depth his sense of pastoral woman who trained me at age 6 to be an altar boy. ministry, so in the meantime we were able to catch up Seeing her in the pew, there to welcome me at the with him and ask him about his very first experiences early morning Mass was wonderful – to have that as he serves the people of his childhood parish at St. same connection. And using the chalice I remember Mary’s Ukiah. being used when I was a boy gave me the sense of an How long have you been at St. Mary’s now? amazing continuity, it was a very touching experience “I had a few days after ordination and within the for me. week I hit the ground running I was assigned imme- Do you have any reflections as you begin this new diately, and the following Saturday I was welcomed phase of Sacramental ministry? into the parish community. Fr. Oscar Diaz asked me ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you Being able to say Mass, and hear confessions is a to preach at all the Masses (both English and Spanish) came to birth I consecrated you.’ tremendous grace and gift. I’ve dreamed about saying and following each of the masses there was a very nice Mass since I was a boy, and being able to serve at the reception put on by the women of the Parish and there Two words come to mind: wonderful, and blessed. altar; what a gift! And hearing confessions, being were a number of people who came to greet me. I was I don’t use those words lightly. I have had a chance able to serve in that way, as a confessor is such a pro- very impressed. Being sent back to my home parish is already to participate in a youth retreat and visit St. found gift for me. I keep on my desk a card I received unusual to say the least and so to be welcomed by the Eugene’s where I spent my time as a . It’s been for ordination from Sr. Mary Mcgovern that says: people I grew up with, and calling this ‘home’ again kind of a whirlwind. It’s been great to be here in this ‘Alter Christus; instilling new life and hope in all you was a wonderful and interesting experience. area; an area I’m familiar with. I think it’s fun for the encounter’. In those ways the Eucharist always giving What are your reflections upon beginning your people I’ve known to see me return as a priest and us new live is incredible. Being able to do that as a priestly ministry in the Diocese? minister to them. (see Fr. Andrew Pacheco, p. 12) In New Book, Millennial Catholic Women Chat Faith, Life and Dating

July 26 (CNA/EWTN News) - Megan Finegan and Kaylin Koslosky are not theo- logians, journalists, or youth ministers. But the 22-year-old friends believe that they can minister to other young women by writing a new book about femininity. Their book, “Daughter of the King: Wait, Where’s My Crown?!,” addresses issues young women face in today’s society from the perspective of young women themselves. Finegan recently graduated from Benedictine University and is now a paralegal. Koslosky is finishing up her last year at Colorado State University and is hoping to teach high school science. In what they hope will be a fun and easy to read format, the two friends discuss faith, relationships, beauty, modesty, and what they call “twenty-first century buzz topics” like homosexuality and abortion. “We just felt incredibly called by God to help Him get this message out there to His daughters--our peers,” Koslosky told CNA. Koslosky and Finegan said competition and judgment are prominent in today’s culture, but this book takes a different approach. Now Accepting Applications for the Class of 2020

“We’re here with you now, and it’s hard, and we’re still struggling with this APPLY ONLINE: www.cardinalnewman.org information too,” Finnegan said, “but this is the truth and this is what we’re For more information contact: striving for, but it’s a journey.” Pat Piehl, Admissions Director [email protected] • 707.546.6470 “And this is what’s helped us,” Koslosky added. Though the two frequently finish each other’s sentences and joke that they share one brain, they have many different life experiences as well. “We have touched on every topic faced by high school and college women (see New Book, p. 12)

NORTH COAST CATHOLIC / AUGUST 2016 / www.srdiocese.org 11 (New Book, cont. from page 11) nowadays,” Koslosky said. Carmelite House of Prayer, Oakville In addition to their testimonies, Finegan and Koslosky offer tips and personal discoveries in every 38th Annual Benefit Dinner chapter. They said they also researched the topics, citing more than 30 sources. Sunday, September 11, 2016 “(The book is) just resurrecting a deeper beauty and understanding that who we are is beautiful and the life we bring to the world as women,” Koslosky said. According to Koslosky, the idea for the book came from “Megan’s mouth.” In the summer of 2014, the two prayed a novena to St. Anne. “She and I would meet up at the adoration chapel and talk about the reflection of the day and it would be about all these feminine virtues,” Finegan said. “We were like yelling at each other, agreeing, but yelling because we were so passionate about it,” Koslosky said. The idea of doing something about it popped up, but was forgotten as time went on. It was not until the Feast of the Assumption on August 15 of that year, Discalced Carmelite that it resurfaced. Hosted at the Carmelite House of Prayer, 20 Mt Carmel Drive, Oakville The two women were in the car driving to Mass Enjoy the beautiful grounds of the Monastery when Koslosky began talking about how she loved the books she was reading on feminine virtue. Dinner and Auction Finegan said she loved those books too but they Benefit Schedule would always lose her attention part-way in and that, 2:00 pm Social Hour and Silent Auction “honestly, I feel like we need someone in our genera- tion to write to us because I’m tired of 40-year-olds Entertainment writing to us when really, our generation is different.” 4:00 pm Buffet Style Dinner • BBQ Tri-tip, Side Dishes and Dessert, Napa Valley Fine Wines They pointed out that the culture of dating had completely changed and with the influence of tech- Adult Ticket: $50 • Free Hot Dog Dinner (for children 12 and under) nology, everything was different. The two agreed that RSVP By September 1st • Call 944-2454 ext 103, Weekdays before 5 pm someday a college student should write a book when Finegan said, “I feel like we should do that.” “I was like, ‘Nope, do you know what it means to write a book?’” Koslosky recalled. “That’s long. We are busy people,” she said. That fall semester, Finegan was leaving for a study (Fr. Andrew Pacheco, cont. from page 11) abroad trip in Florence, Italy and Koslosky was getting priest is just wonderful. ready to coordinate a large retreat for her college’s Bishop Robert E. Vasa Any highlights from ordination? campus ministry. They were both loaded up on school Invites You to A Special Mass It was an incredibly beautiful day, just the warmth, credits and said they did not have the time. in Anticipation of the Canonization of and love and support I experienced when I first But they prayed about it that day and said, “It was walked into the church was palpable. And the ele- a weird Mass experience.” Blessed Mother Teresa ments, the laying on of hands, the anointing, things Koslosky said she began to laugh and was full of I have seen before, but to actually live it and experi- joy. She thought, “We have to do this.” Finegan said ence it was very profound. The highlight for me was she knew God was asking a lot and she was scared, when Bishop Vasa consecrated my hands, one of the but once she gave it all to Him, she had peace about visiting priests said; ‘you know I’ve never seen that the idea. before, usually the Bishop just makes the sign of “Both of us were dead in,” they said. the cross on the hands with the oil’ but Bishop Vasa As Mass continued, they began to write things made it a point to cover every inch of the inside of down on a little notebook Koslosky had in her purse. my palms with Holy Chrism Oil was a powerful “We get to her [Kaylin’s] home and we just like image for me, that every part of a priest’s hands are start looking at what we had written down and we set apart. Every aspect of my first Mass was also so typed it up and we had an outline and intro done,” beautiful; the music, the liturgy, everything was just Finegan said. Thursday, August 25th perfect. Neither of the young women were writers, but they 6:30pm The thought came to my mind at the first Mass said journaling was how they prayed best. During the here at St. Mary’s when I was at the altar of the words fall semester, they tried writing more, but it was not St. Rose of Lima Parish of Jerimiah: ‘Before I formed you in the womb I very productive. So that Christmas break, they gave 398 10th St. - Santa Rosa knew you; before you came to birth I consecrated themselves one week to get it all done. Blessed Mother Teresa who followed you’. You practice it in the practicum classes at the “Each day we wrote a section,” Koslosky said. God’s call to devote her life to serving the Seminary, but then when you’re there at the altar, They would begin the day with Mass, then go to a poorest of the poor, will be canonized to me it seemed very natural. And what a gift to say coffee shop next to St. Thomas More Catholic Church by Pope Francis on September 4th, 2016. Mass for the first time, to be able to consecrate the in Centennial, Colorado and write as much as they Body and Blood of Our Lord. If you think about, and could. If something were too difficult to write, they “It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, really understand the gift of vocation, to be called, would go to Adoration. but how much love we put in the giving. consecrated and sent, and to actually be there as one “The really hard, vulnerable parts, Jesus had to help —Blessed Mother Teresa sent out celebrating my first mass at the parish I grew us with,” Koslosky said. up in, oh what a gift! ❖ (see New Book, p. 16)

12 NORTH COAST CATHOLIC / AUGUST 2016 / www.srdiocese.org How Did the Catholic Church Get Her Name? by Matt Hardo, from The Catholic Answer (Published by Our Sunday Visitor)

The Creed which we recite on Sundays and holy days speaks of one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. As everybody knows, however, the Church referred to in this Creed is more commonly called just the Catholic Church. It is not, by the way, properly called the Roman Catholic Church, but simply the Catholic Church. The term Roman Catholic is not used by the Church herself; it is a relatively modern term, and one, more- over, that is confined largely to the English language. The English-speaking bishops at the First Vatican Council in 1870, in fact, conducted a vigorous and successful campaign to insure that the term Roman Catholic was nowhere included in any of the Council’s official documents about the Church herself, and the term was not included. Similarly, nowhere in the 16 documents of the will you find the term Roman Catholic. Pope Paul VI signed all the documents of the Second Vatican Council as “I, Paul. Bishop of the Catholic Church.” Simply that—Catholic Church. There are references to the , the Roman missal, the , etc., but when the adjective Roman is applied to the Church herself, it refers to the ! Cardinals, for example, are called cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, but that designation means that when they are named to be cardinals they have “It was already understood that the Church was ‘catholic’ because—to adopt a modern expression— thereby become honorary clergy of the Holy Father’s she possessed the fullness of the means of .” home diocese, the Diocese of Rome. Each cardinal is given a titular church in Rome, and when the car- dinals participate in the election of a new pope. they ceeded in warning the Church away from ever using rather useful reference book called “The Oxford Book are participating in a process that in ancient times the term officially herself: It too easily could be mis- of the Christian Church,” the fact is that there has was carried out by the clergy of the Diocese of Rome. understood. never been a major entity in history called by that Although the Diocese of Rome is central to the Today in an era of widespread dissent in the Church, name; the Oxford University Press has adopted a Catholic Church, this does not mean that the Roman and of equally widespread confusion regarding what misnomer, for the Church of Christ has never been rite, or, as is sometimes said, the Latin rite, is co- authentic Catholic identity is supposed to consist of, called the Christian Church. terminus with the Church as a whole; that would many loyal Catholics have recently taken to using the There is, of course, a Protestant denomination in mean neglecting the Byzantine, Chaldean, Maronite term Roman Catholic in order to affirm their under- the United States which does call itself by that name, or other Oriental rites which are all very much part standing that the Catholic Church of the Sunday but that particular denomination is hardly what the of the Catholic Church today, as in the past. creed is the same Church that is united with the Vicar Oxford University Press had in mind when assigning In our day, much greater emphasis has been given of Christ in Rome, the Pope. This understanding of to its reference book the title that it did. The assign- to these “non-Roman” rites of the Catholic Church. theirs is correct, but such Catholics should neverthe- ment of the title in question appears to have been The Second Vatican Council devoted a special docu- less beware of using the term, not only because of one more method, of which there have been so many ment, Orientalium Ecclesiarum (Decree on Eastern its dubious origins in Anglican circles intending to down through history, of declining to admit that there Catholic Churches), to the Eastern rites which belong suggest that there just might be some other Catholic is, in fact, one--and only one--entity existing in the to the Catholic Church, and the new Catechism of the Church around somewhere besides the Roman one: world today to which the designation “the Catholic Catholic Church similarly gives considerable atten- but also because it often still is used today to suggest Church” in the Creed might possibly apply. tion to the distinctive traditions and spirituality of that the Roman Catholic Church is something other The entity in question, of course, is just that: the these Eastern rites. and lesser than the Catholic Church of the creed. It is very visible, worldwide Catholic Church, in which So the proper name for the universal Church is not commonly used by some dissenting theologians, for the 263rd successor of the Apostle Peter, Pope John the Roman Catholic Church. Far from it. That term example, who appear to be attempting to categorize Paul II, teaches, governs and sanctifies, along with caught on mostly in English-speaking countries; it the Roman Catholic Church as just another contem- some 3,000 other bishops around the world, who are was promoted mostly by Anglicans, supporters of porary “Christian denomination”--not the body that successors of the apostles of Jesus Christ. the “branch theory” of the Church, namely, that the is identical with the one, holy, catholic and apostolic As mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, it is true one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church of the creed Church of the creed. that the followers of Christ early became known as was supposed to consist of three major branches, the The proper name of the Church, then, is the “Christians” (cf. Acts 11:26). The name Christian, Anglican, the Orthodox and the so-called Roman Catholic Church. It is not ever called “the Christian however, was never commonly applied to the Church Catholic. It was to avoid that kind of interpretation Church,” either. Although the prestigious Oxford herself. In the New Testament itself, the Church is that the English-speaking bishops at Vatican I suc- University Press currently publishes a learned and (see Catholic Church, p. 16)

NORTH COAST CATHOLIC / AUGUST 2016 / www.srdiocese.org 13 Holy Year Pilgrimage Tour to Diocese of Santa Rosa - Department of Religious Education Presents its Annual Religious Education Congress ITALY “Jesus is the Merciful Face of the Father” Saturday, August 20, 2016 9am Held at Cardinal Newman School, 50 Ursuline Rd., Santa Rosa

On Saturday, August 20th, the Diocese of Santa Rosa will present a day of prayer and fellowship for all adults in the Diocese. This year’s theme, “Jesus is the merciful face of the Father.”

The variety of workshops and keynotes available throughout the day are excellent resources for formation and enrichment for you and for your communities faith. The opportunity to listen and be renewed by the wisdom offered truly a gift and a blessing. ALL ARE WELCOME! WE ARE PLEASED TO PRESENT A REGISTRATION: Sponsored by St Apollinaris Parish, Napa DYNAMIC GROUP OF SPEAKERS: • Registration is open. • Most Rev. Robert F. Vasa, DD, Keynote speech • Variety of topics. • Rev. John Boettcher • Brochure with workshop descriptions and Registration Form available. October 5-16, 2016 • Mark Brumley, MA • Due to limited seating please register early, workshops fill up quickly. Lake Como, Milan, Portofino, • Mr. Steven A. Cortright • Registration fee for Congress covers admission to all workshops • Mr. Rich Curran (tickets are required), liturgies & exhibits. The fee for the congress is Tuscany, Sienna, Assisi, Rome $20 by Aug, 16th. $30 on day of event. • John Galten • Registrations received after Aug 16th are at risk of not being • Joseph Hollcraft, Ph.D. processed. Roundtrip San Francisco ~ 4-Star Hotels • Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., plenary speech • Pre-order & pre-paid Lunch $7.00. English-Speaking Guides ~ Priest Accompanies • Sr. Mary Rose Mank, MSSR All Major ~ Papal Audience • Jesse Romero, MA, closing INFORMATION: • Sr. Maria Faustina Scherman, MSSR Location: SR Congress is held at Cardinal Newman High School Campus, located in Santa Rosa. The gym is one of the main locations $5399.00 per person Sharing Double • Dr. Margaret Turek, S.Th.D of congress events. Including opening liturgy and the keynote. Single + $969 (limited availability) Facility: There will be Exhibitors showcasing Books & Gifts. Gym & Classrooms are air conditioned. Coffee, & doughnuts will be provided. Bottle water will be available. Details & Registration: TO REGISTER VISIT OUR WEBSITE OR CONTACT: [email protected] or Carmen Perez Aanenson, Diocese of Santa Rosa, Department of Religious Education Susan Kennelly (707) 257-1804 www.pilgrimages.com/stapollinaris [email protected] | (707) 566-3366 | Fax (707) 542-9702 | www.santarosacatholic.org

La Diócesis de Santa Rosa - Departamento de Educación Religiosa Presenta su Anual Child & Youth Protection Congreso de Educación Religiosa If you or someone you know has been “Jesusito es el Rostro de la Misericordia del Padre” harmed by sexual misconduct by clergy, Sábado, 20 de Agosto 2016 9am a Church employee, or volunteer, Tendrá lugar en La Escuela Cardinal Newman, 50 Ursuline Rd., Santa Rosa please contact:

El 20 de Agosto, la Diócesis de Santa Rosa ofrecerá un día de oración y compartimiento para todos Julie Sparacio, Director los adultos en la Diócesis. El tema es “Jesusito es el Rostro de la Misericordia del Padre.” Child and Youth Protection La variedad de talleres y charlas presentadas durante el día es valiosa. Recursos de formación y 707-566-3309 enriquecimiento para ustedes y para sus comunidades de fe. La oportunidad de escuchar y de renovarse con la [email protected] sabiduría ofrecida por los conferencistas es un verdadero don y una bendición.

NOS COMPLACE PRESENTAR REGISTRACIÓN: UN GRUPO DINÁMICO DE • La registración esta abierto. CONFERENCISTAS: • Variedad de temas. • Jesse Romero, MA, La Conferencia Principal • El folleto con descripciones de los talleres y el formulario de inscripción están disponibles. • Padre Oscar Díaz • Como tenemos una cantidad limitada de asientos por favor • Padre Juan Carlos Chiarinoti regístrese temprano. Los talleres se llenan rápidamente. • Padre Juan Carlos Gavancho Hurtado, STL • El costo de inscripción cubre la admisión a todos los eventos., exposiciones, liturgias y las conferencias (debe de • Osvaldo Guzman presentar sus boletos de inscripción para entrar a los talleres). $20 antes del 16 de Agosto de 2016 fecha limite. $30 el día INFORMACIÓN: del evento. Lugar: El Congreso de Educación Religiosa tendrá lugar • Las inscripciones recibidas después de 16 de agosto corren el en las instalaciones del Colegio Cardenal Newman en riesgo de no ser procesados. Santa Rosa. Liturgia y el orador principal se celebrara en el • Las personas que quieran ordenar comida lo pueden hacer en gimnasio. El gimnasio esta en 4300 Old Redwood Hwy. la registración y debe ser pagada por adelantado. También, La Facilidad: Habrá una sección de exhibición de libros y cada persona pueda traer su comida. El prescio de la comida regalos. Las clases y gimnasio son aire acondicionados. Café por adelantado sera de $7.00. y pan de dulce se ofrecen durante el día. Agua de botella estará disponible.

PARA REGISTRARSE VISITA EL WEBSITE O CONTACTO: Carmen Perez Aanenson, Diocese of Santa Rosa, Department of Religious Education [email protected] | (707) 566-3366 | Fax (707) 542-9702 | www.santarosacatholic.org

14 NORTH COAST CATHOLIC / AUGUST 2016 / www.srdiocese.org ing of the families, the parish community, and the took by Mary, Joseph and Jesus as they traveled diocese. from Nazareth to Jerusalem. Just as those holy trips In the telegram, signed by Vatican Secretary of were accompanied by prayers, psalms and song, so State, Cardinal , the Pope prayed that too this event in Santa Rosa began with a gospel News God “welcomes Fr. Jacques Hamel in peace,” and reading from Luke, reminding participants of the brings comfort to the injured person. journey taken by the . The recitation of Affected that the “act of violence” took place during a prayer written by Pope Francis and group read- Mass, the pontiff “implores God’s peace for the world,” ings of Psalm 122 followed. The group then set off the telegram read. He prayed that God might inspire on their pilgrimage, reciting the first decade of the “thoughts of reconciliation and fraternity.” rosary as they walked. Briefs Archbishop Lebrun, who is currently in Krakow, Poland for World Youth Day, responded to the news of the killing, calling on believers and non-believers to “cry out to God with all men of good will.” The archbishop said he had prayed in Warsaw with the youth attending WYD at the tomb of Fr. Popi- ulusko, a priest who was assassinated in 1984 during the communist regime. “The Catholic Church cannot take weapons other than those of prayer and brotherhood among men,” the Rouen archbishop said, explaining that he would be returning to his diocese where the people are “very much in shock.” “I leave here hundreds of young people who are the future of humanity, the true ones,” he said. “I ask them not to give in to the violence,” but instead “become apostles of the civilization of love.” Pope Francis condemns violence. French prime minister Manuel Valls decried the ”horror” of the “barbaric attack,” writing on Twitter: St. Sebastian’s Pilgrimage National “The whole of France and all Catholics are wounded. We will stand together.” Pope condemns ‘absurd violence’ after priest is Tuesday’s killing comes little over a week after a Group prayer continued as the parishioners killed in French church teenage Afghan Islamist went on an axe rampage in marched around Montgomery Village, pausing in a Würzburg, Germany, which left several passengers visible corner to continue with the reading of psalms by Ann Schneible severely wounded. More recently, just last Saturday, and praying of the rosary. Shoppers and motorists around 80 people were killed and 230 people wounded alike were witness to this devout expression of faith. Vatican City, July 26, 2016 (CNA/EWTN News) after two explosions struck the Afghan city of Kabul. Not even the stoplight at the corner could delay the - Pope Francis has decried the “absurd violence” The Vatican’s July 26 statement came in response completion of the rosary as parishioners spoke in which has left an elderly priest dead after his church to the “terrible new news” of the deadly hostage situ- unison the holy prayers. The pilgrimage ended on in northern France was taken hostage during Mass. ation in a church in Rouen, the latest in “a series of the steps of St. Eugene Cathedral with Pope Fran- In a statement released Tuesday by the Vatican, the violence which, in recent days has shocked us,” and cis’ Prayer for the Jubilee Year of Mercy, and solemn Pope, having been informed of the situation, “partici- caused “immense suffering and worry.” entrance through the Holy Door. pates in the pain and horror of this absurd violence,” In less than two years, France has witnessed several (Special thanks to Joy Reeves, of St. Sebastian Parish)❖ while radically condemning “every form of hatred.” deadly attacks attributed to Islamic state militants, The statement said the pontiff is praying for those with the most recent—and second deadliest—taking affected by the tragedy, which took place in the Nor- place earlier this month. On July 14, 84 people were mandy region, adding that the Vatican is following killed in Nice, France when a Tunisian man inten- the situation. tionally drove a large truck through a crowded beach Fr. Jacques Hamel, 84, was killed Tuesday after two street at high speed during a Bastille Day celebration. armed gunmen stormed a church in Saint-Etienne- On Nov. 13, 2015, nearly 130 people were killed du-Rouvray during Mass, the BBC reports. The in a series of attacks throughout Paris. In January of assailants entered the church and took the celebrating that same year, a total of 12 people were killed in the priest and four others hostage. French capital after terrorists stormed the offices of The BBC further cites police sources which say the the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine. priest’s throat was slit in the attack. During an address at WYD for the launch of DoCat, Reuters reports that both of the hostage takers were a new Catholic social doctrine app for young people, shot dead by police. Authorities say one of the hos- the Archbishop of Manila, Cardinal Luis Antonio tages has been critically wounded, the BBC reports. Tagle, responded to the attacks. According to the ISIS-linked Amaq news agency, “We want to express also our unity, our communion the assailants were “two soldiers of the Islamic State,” of prayer, even of sorrow, with the people of France,” the BBC reports. he said. “We are especially moved because this horrible Although little is yet known about the incident, he violence took place in a Church—a sacred place in said we are nonetheless “shocked, we are saddened, which God’s love is announced—with the barbaric and we pray for the people of France.” murder of a priest and the involvement of the faith- ful,” the Vatican’s statement read. “We are close to the French Church, the Rouen archdiocese, to the affected community, and the St. Sebastian’s Pilgrimage French people.” On July 2, 2016 fourteen members of St. Sebastian Pope Francis has also sent a telegram to Archbishop Parish in Sebastopol gathered at St. Eugene Cathe- Dominique Lebrun of Rouen, assuring him of his dral to participate in a walking pilgrimage. This “spiritual closeness,” and his prayers for the suffer- devout undertaking reflected the yearly pilgrimages August 1: St. Alphonsus Liguori

NORTH COAST CATHOLIC / AUGUST 2016 / www.srdiocese.org 15 (Catholic Church cont. from page 13) her (Mt 16:18). (New Book, cont. from page 12) simply called “the Church.” There was only one. In The Catechism of the Catholic Church in our own “We are very vulnerable in this book,” she contin- that early time there were not yet any break-away day has concisely summed up all the reasons why the ued. “Here’s our entire life; everything we’ve done bodies substantial enough to be rival claimants of the name of the Church of Christ has been the Catho- wrong, everything we’re not proud of, but here’s what name and from which the Church might ever have to lic Church: “The Church is catholic,” the Catechism God’s done with us.” distinguish herself. teaches, “[because] she proclaims the fullness of the “And that’s what’s amazing.” Very early in post-apostolic times, however. the faith. She bears in herself and administers the totality According to Koslosky, they wrote the book in six Church did acquire a proper name—and precisely in of the means of salvation. She is sent out to all peoples. days. order to distinguish herself from rival bodies which She speaks to all men. She encompasses all times. She “On the seventh day, we rested,” Finegan chimed in. by then were already beginning to form. The name is ‘missionary of her very nature’” (no. 868). After it was finished, the young women did not that the Church acquired when it became necessary So the name became attached to her for good. By know what to do next. Koslosky said, “We didn’t know for her to have a proper name was the name by which the time of the first ecumenical council of the Church, the words platform or book proposals.” she has been known ever since-the Catholic Church. held at Nicaea in Asia Minor in the year 325 A.D., the But that summer, Koslosky happened to meet The name appears in Christian literature for the bishops of that council were legislating quite natu- Curtis Martin, the founder of the Fellowship of Cath- first time around the end of the first century. By the rally in the name of the universal body they called olic University Students (FOCUS), and Finegan met time it was written down, it had certainly already in the Council of Nicaea’s official documents “the international Catholic chastity speaker Jason Evert, been in use, for the indications are that everybody Catholic Church.” As most people know, it was that at separate events. understood exactly what was meant by the name same council which formulated the basic Creed in Not only did the interactions encourage the two when it was written. which the term “catholic” was retained as one of the to continue with publishing the book, but FOCUS Around the year A.D. 107, a bishop, St. Ignatius four marks of the true Church of Christ. And it is the said they would sell it, and Jason Evert offered the of Antioch in the Near East, was arrested, brought same name which is to be found in all 16 documents young women a place to build their platform on his to Rome by armed guards and eventually martyred of the twenty-first ecumenical council of the Church, website, the contact to his own editor, and the advice there in the arena. In a farewell letter which this early Vatican Council II. to self-publish. bishop and martyr wrote to his fellow Christians in It was still back in the fourth century that St. Cyril One of Koslosky’s blogs for Jason Evert, entitled “I Smyrna (today Izmir in modern Turkey), he made of Jerusalem aptly wrote, “Inquire not simply where Never Knew a Bikini Could Hide So Much,” was the the first written mention in history of “the Catholic the Lord’s house is, for the sects of the profane also top blog post on chastityproject.com for 2015. Church.” He wrote, “Where the bishop is present, make an attempt to call their own dens the houses of On August 15 of this year, the book dedicated to there is the Catholic Church” (To the Smyrnaeans the Lord; nor inquire merely where the church is, but Mary will be published. 8:2). Thus, the second century of Christianity had where the Catholic Church is. For this is the peculiar The two authors said they just want other women to scarcely begun when the name of the Catholic Church name of this Holy Body, the Mother of all, which is know, “No matter what you’ve done or where you’ve was already in use. the Spouse of Our Lord Jesus Christ” (Catecheses, been, or what your past is or isn’t, you’re beautiful, Thereafter, mention of the name became more and xviii, 26). you’re loved and you’re a daughter of the King.” more frequent in the written record. It appears in The same inquiry needs to be made in exactly the They described the book as a starting point for any the oldest written account we possess outside the same way today, for the name of the true Church of young women to delve deeper in their faith or open New Testament of the martyrdom of a Christian for Christ has in no way been changed. It was inevitable their minds to the possibility of truth in its pages. his faith, the “Martyrdom of St. Polycarp,” bishop of that the Catechism of the Catholic Church would Finegan and Koslosky hope it is just the start of a the same Church of Smyrna to which St. Ignatius adopt the same name today that the Church has had journey and are offering further resources on www. of Antioch had written. St. Polycarp was martyred throughout the whole of her very long history. restoreyourcrown.com. ❖ around 155, and the account of his sufferings dates Kenneth D. Whitehead is a former career diplomat back to that time. The narrator informs us that in who served in Rome and the Middle East and as the his final prayers before giving up his life for Christ, chief of the Arabic Service of the Voice of America. St. Polycarp “remembered all who had met with him For eight years he served as executive vice president at any time, both small and great, both those with of Catholics United for the Faith. Mr. Whitehead was and those without renown, and the whole Catholic educated at the University of Utah and the University Church throughout the world.” of Paris and holds an honorary degree as a Doctor of We know that St. Polycarp, at the time of his death Christian Letters from the Franciscan University of in 155, had been a Christian for 86 years. He could Steubenville. He serves on the Board of Directors of not, therefore, have been born much later than 69 or the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, 70. Yet it appears to have been a normal part of the the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, and the Review of vocabulary of a man of this era to be able to speak of Metaphysics. Mr. Whitehead is married to the former “the whole Catholic Church throughout the world.” Margaret O’Donohue, a professional religious educa- The name had caught on, and no doubt for good tor, and they are the parents of four grown sons. ❖ reasons. The term “catholic” simply means “universal,” and when employing it in those early days, St. Ignatius of Antioch and St. Polycarp of Smyrna were refer- ring to the Church that was already “everywhere,” as distinguished from whatever sects, schisms or splin- ter groups might have grown up here and there, in opposition to the Catholic Church. The term was already understood even then to be an especially fitting name because the Catholic Church was for everyone, not just for adepts, enthu- siasts or the specially initiated who might have been attracted to her. Again, it was already understood that the Church was “catholic” because—to adopt a modern expres- sion—she possessed the fullness of the means of salvation. She also was destined to be “universal” in time as well as in space, and it was to her that applied the promise of Christ to Peter and the other apostles that “the powers of death shall not prevail” against August 15: The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary August 8: St. Dominic

16 NORTH COAST CATHOLIC / AUGUST 2016 / www.srdiocese.org Cardinal Dziwisz talks Krakow, Saint John Paul II

Krakow, Poland, July 26 (CNA/EWTN News) - As family “quotes John Paul II many times.” to Christ, and to the community of Christian cul- World Youth Day approaches, the Archbishop of Cardinal Dziwisz also reflected on the central role tu re .” Krakow recently spoke with EWTN Deutschland that the Church played in the development of Poland The late Pope developed a close friendship with about the “city of saints” hosting the gathering, and as a nation—the country is celebrating the 1050th Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who succeeded him about its most famous son—St. John Paul II. anniversary of its conversion this year. “Without a as Benedict XVI, the Krakow archbishop then “You ask me where I have seen [John Paul II’s] doubt, the Church played an important role in the explained. “He cherished Cardinal Ratzinger a lot, holiness. Well, we know that he was a very talented first days of the Polish state and it still is significant whom he wanted to have on his side right from the man­—a writer, a poet, a speaker, an actor; but most for our people today,” he said. beginning of his pontificate... He knew right from of all, a great prayer,” Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz Krakow became the Polish capital in 1038, and was the start that Cardinal Ratzinger was necessary to told EWTN’s Robert Rauhut. then also deemed the “center of culture, Christianity keep clear the matters of theology, particularly the Cardinal Dziwisz was ordained a priest of the and religiosity in Poland.” One of its early bishops, disputable ones or uncertainties. He was convinced Archdiocese of Krakow in 1963 by St. John Paul St. Stanislaus of Szczepanów, can be called the “con- of him due to his enormous intellectual skills, his II, who was then an auxiliary bishop of the city. science of the nation,” Cardinal Dziwisz said, noting educational background, his abilities and skills for Wojtyla was appointed archbishop the following that he was martyred “defending human rights and dialogue … they were a team, connected in mutual year, and then—Fr. Dziwisz became his secretary defending the freedom of conscience.” trust, in their dedication to work. They appreciated soon thereafter—a role in which he served until the St. Stanislaus “was the first to show that the Church each other, so what they had was certainly some- Pope’s death in 2005. is to serve the people and that it should do so in an thing you might call a mutual understanding and He said St. John Paul II “had already discovered autonomous way, not serving on behalf of the state, a friendship.” the importance of prayer as a boy back in Wadowice. but with it… he demonstrated the sovereignty of Krakow is particulary important as “the capital He organized his whole life in a way such that it had Church authority from the state authority. That is of mercy,” its archbishop added. It was here that a great reference to God; such that his life became how the church in Poland was upheld back then and St. Faustina Kowalska, to whom the Divine Mercy a prayer to the Lord himself… He did not split his is maintained today. Of course, both institutions devotion was revealed, spent her last years. “Next time between work, sports, and prayer… Everything cooperate for the common good, but in general, we to her as an apostle of divine mercy, receiving the he did served the Lord’s will, in some way.” deal with two independent orders.” message on behalf of the whole world, God has pro- “He granted audiences, he held different meetings, Cardinal Dziwisz affirmed that Krakow “is indeed vided for a second apostle to realize this message,” but the people who were close to him knew he was a ‘city of saints’. No further place—except for Rome he said, indicating St. John Paul II. “The idea of praying even then.” —has as many saints as Krakow. Here, we have many Divine Mercy has always been present in some way The cardinal reflected that when one of the Pope’s churches, and the quantity of churches is an expres- in his magisterium, his documents, his homilies staff would tell him of a difficult situation to which sion of how religious the city is. Almost every church and speeches.” they couldn’t find a solution, St. John Paul II would contains a grave of a saint. It has been like that all the From Krakow “a spark will arise,” Cardinal Dzi- reply, “I do not see one either, because we have not time and we have numerous contemporary saints.” wisz said, “a spark of Divine Mercy, just as Sister yet prayed enough… Let us introduce this matter to He noted St. Albert Chmielowski, who founded Faustina once wrote.” the Lord: a solution will then arise in some way; the religious congregations and died in 1916, and who “That spark will assist to deepen the religious life issue will solve itself, always through prayer.” “was a role model for John Paul II.” in the world. We do have the hope that the young St. John Paul II’s prayerfulness was “with him St. John Paul II’s pride in his native Poland showed people will familiarize themselves with this dispatch, from the time he was a child,” Cardinal Dziwisz a healthy and postive patriotism, Cardinal Dziwisz this message of Divine Mercy here, and that they reflected. “His father played a great role for that reflected. “He very strongly underlined the difference will bring it to all countries… because young people matter. He taught him the prayer to the Holy Spirit, between ‘nationalism’ and ‘patriotism’”, he explained. from almost 200 different countries will come to which accompanied him his whole life. Even on “Nationalism is negative. By contrast, patriotism is Krakow” for World Youth Day, he said. his last Saturday, on the day he died, he recited this positively connotated; it is something you have to “It is due to providence that the youth will cel- prayer to the Holy Spirit.” develop. Patriotism entails a religious aspect. He was ebrate a festival of mercy this year here in Krakow,” He added that St. John Paul II was also very devot- indeed a patriot of Poland … he always appreciated Cardinal Dziwisz said. “The Lord wants to show ed to the Virgin Mary and the rosary: “for him that the culture of Poland, the Polish Church, of which us something, he wants to show us that this is the was always a Christological prayer: contemplation I derive from, and the Polish people. He saw their way to the future, the way of the Church, the way of the work of redemption with the Mother of God.” great values. Hence, he tried hard: he was familiar of societies… However, mercy means reversal and The late Pope spent time in Eucharistic adoration with the European culture and its values. He was of conversion, as well. We see that many people come daily, and made a Holy Hour every Thursday. Car- the opinion that both the west and the east frame to confess: they are keen to reconcile with God, but dinal Dziwisz said St. John Paul II “encouraged us contemporary Europe.” also with other people. Mercy—that is God’s love to compensate the time that the Apostles overslept” Cardinal Dziwisz believes St. John Paul II sup- to the people, who are also obliged to communicate during Christ’s agony in the garden. ported a united European community, albeit one and to share love and mercy. In this context works St. John Paul II “saw the positive in everyone,” based on Christian values. of mercy develop.” which Cardinal Dziwisz attributed to “his theol- “Without values, without the Christian culture on He gave as an example the location of the World ogy—the picture of God in men, this appreciation which Europe has evolved, the community would Youth Day events, saying that “anticipating the Holy towards everyone.” not be able to survive. So we have to return to those Father’s intention, two houses have been built there, The saint’s legacy is kept alive particularly through values, to his prophetic idea. If we will not, the already! There is the house of bread, in which the his magisterium, the cardinal said, calling it “a point already unstable community will suffer from greater poor are welcome to find shelter. It also has medicine of reference in many areas,” especially the family: problems and a crisis.” for the sick; medical consultation or rehabilitation “He has left us a great doctrine in that field.” As St. John Paul II’s prophetic vision of Europe is is conducted there. So we will not only celebrate an exemplar he mentioned , St. needed today, Cardinal Dziwisz said: “It is the job of and be happy there, but something will stay there John Paul II’s 1981 on the role contemporary people, contemporary Europeans. It permanently. We are already preparing cars and of the Christian family in the modern world, noting is up to the youth who make a pilgrimage to Krakow, ambulances which will drive to Syria. The issue that Pope Francis’ own recent exhortation on the to celebrate their faith here, their belonging to God, (see Cardinal Dziwisz, p. 21)

NORTH COAST CATHOLIC / AUGUST 2016 / www.srdiocese.org 17 Uno Vida Humana

Si es que hay un aumento en el número y gravedad Más lo acentuamos nosotros mismos, llegado a ser prácticamente inmunes a la brutalidad de las matanzas, balaceras, atentados y actividades ¡Arrepentimiento, remordimiento y vergüenza! del aborto. terroristas en general, es probablemente discutible. Y el hombre, con rostro hacia el cielo Nadie puede dudar de la brutalidad o el sinsentido de Las sonrisas de amor adornan – Ningún hombre es una isla, los ataques pero si es que ha habido un aumento en la La inhumanidad del hombre hacia el hombre entera en sí, frecuencia, a mi me parece, es otra cuestión. Ataques A miles hace llorar.” Cada hombre es pieza de continente, similares a los de Niza, París, Orlando, Boston y San parte del total. Bernardino han tenido lugar en las Aprovecho el poco consuelo que Si el villano es arrastrado por el mar, zonas más remotas y subdesarrol- la manifestación de la inhumanidad Europa se reduce. ladas del mundo donde la prensa que parece ser tan frecuente hoy en Cual si fuera promontorio, no es tan minuciosa. Las víctimas, día ya era observada por el poeta hace cual si fuera coro de amigos, muchos de los cuales son Cristianos 230 años. Otro poeta, John Donne en o fuera propia: en el Medio Oriente, tienen el mismo 1572, doscientos años antes de Burns, Toda muerte me disminuye, reclamo ante nuestra preocupación escribió ese poema famoso: Ningún pues estoy con la humanidad y oraciones como las víctimas en los Hombre es una Isla. Esperemos que Así no pidas saber por quién dobla la campana; Estados Unidos y Francia; “la muerte nuestra conciencia de esta unidad dobla por ti. de cualquier hombre me disminuye”. tan esencial en toda la humanidad Cada evento es una manifestación Desde el Obispo aumente a diario, especialmente Esa campana de hecho se doblará por nuestras más de la “inhumanidad del hombre cuando oímos hablar que una brutal- almas disecadas si no llegamos a llorar la perdida de al hombre”. Esta frase se le atribuye idad en una parte del mundo supera alguien, aunque ese alguien, sea una vida humana al poeta Robert Burns que en 1784 Mons. Robert F. Vasa es el la brutalidad de la semana anterior tomada por su propia mano o por la mano de otro. sexto obispo de la Diócesis escribió un poema titulado, Dirge: de Santa Rosa en California. efectuada en otra parte. Nadie de Que la luz de Dios en su Rostro Misericordioso el hombre fue hecho para llorar. Una nosotros puede pretender ser inmune brille en todas las víctimas de la inhumanidad del estrofa de este poema dice: a esta inhumanidad y no queremos hombre hacia el hombre. ❖ llegar a ser inmune a ella. Aunque sea tan doloroso “Muchos y agudos males como es, tenemos que sentirnos afectados. No nos Sinceramente su Hermano en Cristo Jesús, Reverendísi- Se entrelazan en nuestro marco volvamos inmunes a esta brutalidad como hemos mo Roberto F. Vasa Obispo de Santa Rosa Preguntas al Diácono Mario Contiene la Misa partes bíblicas? by Diácono Mario Zúniga

PRIMERA PARTE. las Escrituras y con mucha mayor consistencia, que 3:16). cualquier otra iglesia Cristiana. 8. Levantemos el corazón: (Lamentaciones 3:41). La misa para los católicos ocupa una parte central en Por medio de especificar las lecturas para cada 9. Tomen y coman, esto es mi Cuerpo: (Mateo nuestra vida. domingo e incluso para cada día de la semana, la 26:26-28, 1 Corintios 11:23-26). Es el cumplimiento del mandamiento especifico Iglesia Católica presenta la historia completa de la 10. Santo, Santo, Santo es el Señor: (Apocalipsis de Jesús en la última cena (Lucas 22:19) Biblia a sus fieles. Asegurándose que una Buena 4:8; Isaías 6:3). A veces hay críticos que dicen que la misa es anti- porción de toda la Biblia se proclame a todos los 11. La oración del Padre Nuestro: (Mateo 6:9-13). biblical, estos cargos son absurdos, ya que la misa está fieles, y siempre de acuerdo a los tiempos litúrgicos 12. La paz del Señor este siempre con ustedes: (Juan saturada con la Biblia. que celebra la Iglesia. 20:19). Consideremos el carácter de la misa dentro de las Y todavía hay más de la Biblia que se incluye en 13. Cordero de Dios que quitas el pecado del Sagradas Escrituras: cada misa. Por ejemplo muchas de las oraciones que mundo: (Juan 1:29). En cada misa que celebramos el día Domingo se dicen en la misa están tomadas de las páginas de 14. Dichosos los invitados a la cena del Señor: leemos al menos tres lecturas completas de la Biblia, las Sagradas Escrituras. (Apocalipsis 19:9). escogidas del Antiguo y Nuevo Testamento. Consideremos algunos ejemplos: 15. Señor, yo no digno de que entres a mi casa: La Iglesia prescribe lecturas particulares para cada 1. Rito Inicial: En el nombre del Padre, y del Hijo, (Mateo 8:8). día de los 3 años del Año Litúrgico. y del Espíritu Santo (Mateo 28:19). 16. Vayan en paz: (Lucas 7:50). Atreves del curso de este periodo, las personas 2. Saludo: La Gracia de Cristo Jesús el Señor, el 17. Demos gracias a Dios: ( 2 Corintios 9:15). que asisten a misa diariamente habrán escuchado la amor de Dios y la comunión del Espíritu Santo Esta es solamente una lista parcial de textos bíblicos mayor parte del contenido de los libros que contiene estén con todos ustedes (2 Corintios 13:14). que ampliamente evidencian que la misa tiene raíces la Biblia. 3. Amen: (1 Crónicas 16:36). bíblicas, Incluso los gestos de la misa, la decoración En ciertos días santos, como en la misa de Vigilia 4. Acto Penitencial: Señor ten piedad (Mateo 17:15). y vestimentas del celebrante, tienen raíces bíblicas! Pascual, se proclaman incluso un total de 9 lecturas 5. Gloria a Dios en el Cielo: (Lucas 2:14). La Santa Misa es verdaderamente bíblica! ❖ tomadas de los diferentes libros de la Biblia. 6. Aleluya: (Apocalipsis 19:1). La Iglesia Católica proclama una mayor cantidad de 7. El Señor este con ustedes: (2-Tesalonicenses ZÚNIGA es Diácono de Misión Dolores

18 NORTH COAST CATHOLIC / AUGUST 2016 / www.srdiocese.org La Virgen de Guadalupe que “viajó” de Ciudad El icono de la Virgen de Czestochowa es uno de los Noticias en Juárez a la JMJ de Cracovia más venerados en Polonia y Europa, y representa a la CRACOVIA (ACI) - Nestor Rivera es un joven mexi- Virgen María con el Niño en brazos. A lo largo de la cano de 21 años proveniente de Ciudad Juárez, ubica- historia ha sufrido varios atentados que le han dejado Español da en el estado mexicano de Chihuahua. Ha traído a marcas en el rostro y el cuello. la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud (JMJ) en Cracovia El icono original fue destruido y sobre sus restos se una tela con la imagen de la Virgen de Guadalupe colocó el actual. Se trata de una imagen de la Virgen que significa mucho para él porque a través de ella, a la que San Juan Pablo II tenía especial devoción y de cuenta, se enamoró de Dios. la que tenía una réplica en el altar de la capilla privada “El manto fue el regalo de una persona que me en donde rezaba varias horas al día. acercó a la Iglesia y que a través de ella (de la Virgen) Según la tradición, después de la crucifixión de Jesús, Noticias me enamoré plenamente de Dios.” cuando la Virgen María se trasladó a la casa de San El regalo se lo dio su coordinador del grupo juvenil, Juan, llevó consigo una mesa hecha por el Señor en Sábado, 20 de Agosto de 2016 Congreso de Edu- Santos Arteaga, quien compró la imagen en la Basílica el taller de San José. cación Religiosa de Guadalupe. “La tengo conmigo hace cinco años y Se cuenta que, cuando las mujeres piadosas de La Conferencia Principal “25 Razones y beneficios me la quise traer a Cracovia en representación de mi Jerusalén le pidieron a San Lucas que hiciese una porque debo ir a la iglesia y que hace la oración al país y de la diócesis de Ciudad Juárez”, dijo el joven pintura de la Madre de Dios; fue la parte cerebro.” a ACI Prensa. de esta mesa la que el Apóstol utilizó para pintar la Les voy dar, 25 razones científicos médicos que Néstor pertenece a una delegación de cerca de 19 imagen. Mientras aplicaba los broches y la pintura, demuestran los beneficios, físicos, mentales y emo- jóvenes que han llegado a la JMJ con él. “Estamos muy San Lucas escuchaba con atención como la Madre cionales que uno recibe si asistir a la Iglesia semanal- contentos de estar aquí,” comentó. de Jesús hablaba de la vida de su Hijo, lo que fue mente. Además, verán que la oración activa las partes Ciudad Juárez está ubicada en la frontera con Esta- utilizado luego para escribir su Evangelio. buenas del cerebro; le trae serenidad y paz bienestar.” dos Unidos y es una de las urbes más peligrosas de La tradición cuenta que la imagen permaneció en México. El Papa Francisco la visitó en febrero de este Jerusalén hasta que fue descubierta por Santa Helena año y celebró una Misa cerca de la frontera. en el siglo IV. Fue llevada a Constantinopla donde Jesse Romero, M.A. Néstor comentó que no pudo asistir al evento permaneció 500 años, hasta que se convirtió en objeto Jesse es un Evangelizador de tiempo completo, porque estaba realizando un trabajo pastoral en otro de varias dotes y así fue como llegó a Rusia, a la región católico, bilingüe, conocido a nivel nacional por su lugar. que más tarde se convirtió en la actual Polonia. predicación dinámica y positiva, centrada en Cristo. Para él la visita del Santo Padre significó “una gran Los milagros atribuidos a la intercesión de Nuestra Su apostolado se guía en “Evangelización Candente.” bendición. Desde que el Papa Francisco fue nuestra Señora de Czestochowa son muchos. La documen- Jesse vive en Arizona y es un Alguacil retirado de frontera ha cambiado. Hay menos violencia y más tación al respecto se guarda en los archivos de los Los Ángeles. Casado desde 1983. Su esposa es Anita convivencia.” Padres Paulinos en Jasna Gora (Polonia). y tienen tres hijos. Uno de estos es el conocido como el Milagro de Vís- Jesse tiene un B.A. de Mount St. Mary ’s University Ahora en Cracovia el joven ha llevado su imagen tula: el 14 de septiembre de 1920, cuando el ejército en Los Ángeles y un M.A. en Teología Católica de de la Virgen de Guadalupe al Santuario de la Divina ruso se estableció en el Río Vístula y se preparaba para St Francis University en Ohio. Como autor, él ha Misericordia. Para él esa fue una grata experiencia invadir la ciudad de Varsovia, el pueblo recurrió a la recibido premios tales como: “Archbishop Fulton J. “porque soy muy devoto de la Divina Misericordia y Virgen María. Sheen Award,” “The fullness of Truth, Defender of de Santa Faustina.” Al día siguiente, fiesta de Nuestra Señora de los Dolo- Faith Award” y “Sports Faith International Award.” “Entonces fue un mar de lágrimas ahí. Estar en el res, el ejército ruso se retiró después que la imagen Jesse ha trabajado en EWTN radio por 10 años, convento donde estuvo Sor Faustina y donde está la de la Virgen apareció en una nube sobre la ciudad. como conductor del programa “La Verdad te Hará primera imagen de la Divina Misericordia fue muy Años después, al inicio de la Segunda Guerra Mun- Libre”, también en Phoenix “En Familia Radio” y bonito”, afirmó.” dial, los alemanes invadieron y capturaron Polonia. conduce un programa en Immaculate Heart Radio “Hemos venido a empaparnos de la misericordia de Después de haber tomado la ciudad de Varsovia, una llamado “Jesse and Terry Show.” Dios para llevarla a los demás jóvenes. Espero tener de las órdenes de Hitler fue cancelar todas las peregri- El habla de temas tales como: Evangelización un encuentro profundo con Dios, enamorarnos más naciones ya que estas fortalecían al pueblo polaco. Católica, Apologética, Familia y Matrimonio, Espiri- de Él de lo que ya estamos y conocer demasiadas En demostración al amor por la Virgen negra y la tualidad Masculina, Bienestar Espiritual, Disturbios personas con el mismo objetivo del amor por Dios,” confianza en su protección, medio millón de polacos Culturales, La Castidad en la Juventud, etc. expresó Rivera. secretamente viajaron hasta el santuario en contra Jesse ha estado predicando por mas de 15 años. Néstor comentó que desde hace dos años y medio de las órdenes de Hitler. Después de la liberación También ha defendido la Santa Madre Iglesia en él y sus amigos realizaron actividades como vender de la ciudad en el año 1945, un millón y medio de varios debates oficiales con diferentes Pastores Prot- galletas, paletas y otras cosas para poder pagar su personas expresaron su gratitud rezando frente a la estantes al igual que en la Televisión en Español frente viaje a Cracovia. imagen milagrosa. a Humanistas Laicos. “Todos le echamos un chorro de ganas para poder San Juan Pablo II visitó varias veces el Santuario. La Su lema es: “Amar a Dios, Salvar las Almas y venir”, relató. primera vez, como Pontífice, fue en 1979 al poco Destruir el Error!” También te puede interesar: VIDEO: Desde Craco- tiempo de haber sido elegido como sucesor de San via estos jóvenes rezan a San Juan Pablo II por la Pedro. ❖ libertad de Cuba https://t.co/dDbNTepjmx Exhibición de la Vida de la Madre Teresa de Calcuta Catedral Santa María de la Asunción Salón San Fran- cisco (St. Francis Hall). Conoce la historia de la Virgen de Czestochowa, Agosto 27 (sábado) 9am - 5pm | Agosto 28 (domin- Patrona de Polonia go) 9am - 5pm | Agosto 29-Sept. 2 (Lunes a Viernes) REDACCIÓN CENTRAL (ACI) - La imagen de 3:00 - 5:30pm | Septiembre 3 (sábado) 9am - 5pm. la Patrona de Polonia, la Virgen de Czestochowa, Santa Misa En Acción De Gracias Por La Canon- recibirá la visita del Papa Francisco este 28 de julio ización De Santa Teresa De Calcuta Domingo, 4 de durante el tercer día de la Jornada Mundial de la (septiembre), 2016 a las 11am. Juventud (JMJ) 2016 en Cracovia. Presidida por Su Excelencia, Nuestro Arzobispo El monasterio de Jasna Gora, donde se encuentra la Salvatore Cordileone. imagen conocida como “La Madonna Negra”, es casi En la Catedral Santa María de la Asunción. una parada obligatoria de cualquier peregrino que Están todos invitados para darle gracias a Dios por visita Polonia. Se encuentra en la ciudad de Czesto- nuestra nueva santa! chowa, lugar donde además se ofrecerá la Misa por el Misioneras de la Caridad. 1050 aniversario del bautismo de Polonia. August 22: Mary, Our Queen

NORTH COAST CATHOLIC / AUGUST 2016 / www.srdiocese.org 19 in awe and gratitude for the gift each one was to the other. This gift was freely given and joyfully received. They had no fear of being reduced to objects of sexual pleasure or being rejected by the other. It would not A Boost for NFP have occurred to them to use their sexual love to by Rev. Charles Goraieb manipulate or seek to dominate the other. Adam wasn’t concerned about losing his independence and As a seminarian, I became aware that God’s plan for tions, couples have accepted this requirement and Eve seldom experienced “headaches.” human sexual love was not an arbitrary list of “do’s” most have expressed appreciation for their exposure The respect, mutuality, trust and openness in the and “don’t’s” but an integrated tapestry that must to the course. I am not naïve enough to think they all sexual relationship before the Fall is summed up in be seen as a whole. At the center of God’s plan is have put it into practice, but at least their horizons Genesis 2:25: “the man and his wife were both naked the teaching expressed so well in the papal encycli- had been expanded and I have planted good seed. and they felt no shame.” We know that these qualities cal, Humanae vitae (1968), regarding the nature Through my experience with counseling engaged changed as soon as they both fell into sin. But because of sexual intercourse as unitive and procreative. couples, I began to think of how to “plant better seed.” of the redeeming work of Jesus, there is hope for us This nature must never be separated. In order to I found my answer when I began to study the Holy all. As the Holy Father points out, the nature of our preserve the dignity of the spouses and their sexual Father’s teachings known as the Theology of the Body. first parents, who were made in God’s image and expression, each and every act of sexual love must This approach to Church teachings offers a com- likeness, remained unchanged. God’s plan for each both foster their unity as husband and wife and prehensive and inspiring way to see God’s plan for human being remains the same even though we must be open to the possibility of new life. This simple human love. It can give both Church teachings and contend with sin in order to achieve it. This plan is yet profound teaching is what most people do not NFP a real boost! summarized in the Vatican II document called the understand, yet it is what most people need in order The Theology of the Body is based not on the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern to live a fuller life. but on Scripture and on every person’s World (Gaudium et Spes): Through God’s grace, at the beginning of my priest- experience. The Holy Father starts his work with the hood I began to see that if I was to offer real assistance dialogue Jesus has with the Pharisees in Matthew Indeed, the Lord Jesus, when He prayed to the to the , it would be essential that I teach 19:3ff regarding the indissolubility of marriage. On Father, “that all may be one… as we are one” the Church’s faith about the unitive and procreative two occasions in this dialogue Jesus refers to God’s (John 17:21-22) opened up vistas closed to human nature of sexual intercourse. Beginning with my first original plan for man and woman, the plan revealed reason, for He implied a certain likeness between parish, I insisted that couples seeking to marry would “in the beginning” (see Genesis 1 & 2). Before sin dis- the union of the divine Persons, and the unity have to take an entire NFP course. With few excep- rupted their unity, our first parents lived their union (see NFP Boost, p. 21)

(World Youth Day, cont. from page 9) poor person, a person lacking material possessions, in spirit shapes our relationship with God, with He can free us from the kinds of idol-worship which always maintains his or her dignity. The poor can material goods and with the poor. With the example enslave us. Put your trust in God, dear young friends! teach us much about humility and trust in God. In the and words of Jesus before us, we realize how much He knows and loves us, and he never forgets us. Just as parable of the pharisee and the tax-collector (cf. Lk we need to be converted, so that the logic of being he provides for the lilies of the field (cf. Mt 6:28), so he 18:9-14), Jesus holds the tax-collector up as a model more will prevail over that of having more! The will make sure that we lack nothing. If we are to come because of his humility and his acknowledgment that saints can best help us to understand the profound through the financial crisis, we must be also ready to he is a sinner. The widow who gave her last two coins meaning of the Beatitudes. So the canonization of change our lifestyle and avoid so much wastefulness. to the temple treasury is an example of the generosity John Paul II, to be celebrated on the Second Sunday Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need of all those who have next to nothing and yet give of Easter, will be an event marked by immense joy. the courage to live simply. away everything they have (Lk 21:1-4). He will be the great patron of the World Youth Days Second, if we are to live by this Beatitude, all of us which he inaugurated and always supported. In the need to experience a conversion in the way we see the 4. … for theirs is the kingdom of heaven communion of saints he will continue to be a father poor. We have to care for them and be sensitive to their and friend to all of you. spiritual and material needs. To you young people I The central theme of the Gospel is the kingdom This month of April marks the thirtieth anniver- especially entrust the task of restoring solidarity to of God. Jesus is the kingdom of God in person; he is sary of the entrustment of the Jubilee Cross of the the heart of human culture. Faced with old and new Immanuel, God-with-us. And it is in the human heart Redemption to the young. That symbolic act by John forms of poverty—unemployment, migration and that the kingdom, God’s sovereignty, takes root and Paul II was the beginning of the great youth pilgrim- addictions of various kinds—we have the duty to grows. The kingdom is at once both gift and promise. age which has since crossed the five continents. The be alert and thoughtful, avoiding the temptation to It has already been given to us in Jesus, but it has yet Pope’s words on that Easter Sunday in 1984 remain remain indifferent. We have to remember all those to be realized in its fullness. That is why we pray to memorable: “My dear young people, at the conclu- who feel unloved, who have no hope for the future the Father each day: “Thy kingdom come”. sion of the Holy Year, I entrust to you the sign of this and who have given up on life out of discouragement, There is a close connection between poverty and Jubilee Year: the cross of Christ! Carry it throughout disappointment or fear. We have to learn to be on the evangelization, between the theme of the last World the world as a symbol of the love of the Lord Jesus for side of the poor, and not just indulge in rhetoric about Youth Day—“Go therefore, and make disciples of all humanity, and proclaim to everyone that it is only in the poor! Let us go out to meet them, look into their nations!” (Mt 28:19)—and the theme for this year: Christ, who died and rose from the dead, that salva- eyes and listen to them. The poor provide us with a “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the king- tion and redemption are to be found.” concrete opportunity to encounter Christ himself, dom of heaven” (Mt 5:3). The Lord wants a poor Dear friends, the Magnificat, the Canticle of Mary, and to touch his suffering flesh. Church which evangelizes the poor. When Jesus sent poor in spirit, is also the song of everyone who lives However—and this is my third point—the poor are the Twelve out on mission, he said to them: “Take no by the Beatitudes. The joy of the Gospel arises from not just people to whom we can give something. They gold, nor silver, nor copper in your belts, no bag for a heart which, in its poverty, rejoices and marvels at have much to offer us and to teach us. How much we your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor a staff; the works of God, like the heart of Our Lady, whom have to learn from the wisdom of the poor! Think for the labourers deserve their food” (Mt 10:9-10). all generations call “blessed” (cf. Lk 1:48). May Mary, about it: several hundred years ago a saint, Benedict Evangelical poverty is a basic condition for spreading Mother of the poor and Star of the new evangelization Joseph Labré, who lived on the streets of Rome from the kingdom of God. The most beautiful and sponta- help us to live the Gospel, to embody the Beatitudes the alms he received, became a spiritual guide to all neous expressions of joy which I have seen during my in our lives, and to have the courage always to be sorts of people, including nobles and prelates. In a life were by poor people who had little to hold onto. happy. ❖ very real way, the poor are our teachers. They show Evangelization in our time will only take place as the us that people’s value is not measured by their posses- result of contagious joy. From the Vatican, 21 January 2014 Memorial of sions or how much money they have in the bank. A We have seen, then, that the Beatitude of the poor Saint Agnes, Virgin and Martyr Francis

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The other day I received an urgent text from a dear of Austria. We were now hours late for our connecting friend: “Help, I have a special intention today! I need train back to school. What this inevitably meant was a good 24-hour novena!” Without hesitation I knew that we had missed the last train home, would have what to recommend: the Mother Teresa emergency to spend the night in the cold, isolated station, and novena. It’s simple (all she needed was one prayer), would miss our exams in the morning. powerful and, most important, fast. “Should we pray?” someone suggested. There Within hours she called to thank me for the advice. was nothing else we could do. “We need a miracle,” She had been waiting to hear from the coach of the another one whispered. “How about Mother Teresa’s traveling soccer team to find out whether her son had emergency novena?” We agreed and began. made the cut. He lives and breathes the sport, but she It was the first I had heard of Mother Teresa’s novena The Mother Teresa emergency novena is simple: Pray the worried because, though he has heart, he was behind and, looking back, it was fitting. It was the fall of 1997, Memorare nine times in a row for your intention. many of the other players when it came to skill. As mere weeks after this soon to be canonized saint had her son asked throughout the day if she had heard died, and the world was still reeling from the loss. At The Mother Teresa emergency novena is simple: from the coach, she became more and more anxious, this point I had only begun to acquaint myself with Pray the Memorare nine times in a row for your anticipating heartbreak—both hers and his—when her simple and powerful witness and I found myself intention. Mother Teresa did this frequently (though the email finally came. drawn to her compassion and insight into the worth she always added an immediate 10th Memorare in She locked herself in the bathroom and said the and beauty of every human being. thanksgiving, so confident was she in receiving prayers. Nine times, fervently. When she emerged, As could only happen with divine intervention, we divine assistance). Her life is full of stories of invok- her phone dinged, and there it was: an email from the arrived at the station to a waiting train. Because of ing Mary’s intercession and the miraculous events coach welcoming him to the team. mechanical problems, it too had been delayed. We that transpired when she did. It wasn’t a life and death situation, no, but it was boarded joyfully, thanking God for His love and uncan- And it doesn’t end there. A quick internet search important to her, and sometimes, with Mary’s sweet ny attention to the very last detail of his children’s lives. uncovers hundreds of stories of miracles attributed to urging, that’s all God needs to work miracles. Think A novena is an old school Catholic devotion that this prayer. Testimonies of fixed financial problems, of Cana, after all. involves saying certain prayers for nine days in a row new jobs, redeemed relationships, and physical heal- It was hard not to think of my own introduction for a specific intention. It’s derived from the nine days ing fill the comment sections each time the novena to this powerful practice. I was 19 and it was so dark that the apostles and Mary spent in the Upper Room is mentioned. that I could see nothing out of the train windows. after the Ascension of Jesus, praying before the Holy I have experienced great blessings from this novena For the first time since we started our trip two days Spirit arrived on Pentecost. and I know you will too. When encountering a dif- , my five usually bubbly companions sat silent. While undoubtedly novenas are a gift of our Catho- ficulty that is both urgent and anxious, take comfort, The realization of the consequences of our train’s late lic faith, life doesn’t always give us a nine-day lead ask Blessed Mother Teresa to join you, and begin: departure lay heavy in the air as the train swayed and time when it comes to its challenges and crises. So an “Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never lumbered towards a small station in the countryside emergency or “express” novena can come in handy. was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection.” ❖

(NFP Boost, cont. from page 21) ples, I am deeply indebted to John Paul II for giving us (Cardinal Dziwisz, cont. from page 17) of God’s sons in truth and charity. This likeness a new and inspiring way to get couples’ attention and is not simply to announce mercy, but to live it by reveals that man, who is the only creature on earth take a closer look at NFP. In his biography, Witness taking actions.” which God willed for itself, cannot fully find him- to Hope, George Weigel says that the Theology of the Cardinal Dziwisz also noted the need for catechiz- self except through a sincere gift of himself. (#24) Body is a ticking time bomb set to go off sometime ing the youth. in this century. What the Holy Father has given us is Good catechesis “is always needed, because igno- We can highlight three basic points from this pas- a profound treasure that will take some time for the rance is dangerous. Once the human being is afraid sage. First, the love between spouses is intended to Church to assimilate. Once that process is in motion, or does not know what to do next, he or she is most be a mirror, an icon of the love which exists between we can expect many people of all faiths to be listening likely to be subjected to all different kinds of tenden- the three persons of the Godhead. More specifically, very carefully as the Church’s voice rises above the din cies” that they need to be guarded against. the Pope argues that it is in their sexual union that to proclaim the truth. In the meantime, we all can set “The next point is to be with society, without spouses reflect to each other, as much as is possible in about the process of learning and enriching ourselves merging with politics. We want to achieve a positive this life, the perfect union of love in the communion with these teachings. The Theology of the Body is a cooperation, but we also want to stay independent,” of persons of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. breath of fresh air for all of us who want to serve God’s he said. “Let us go back to Stanislaus, and be open for Secondly, human beings are created to freely donate people and turn their hearts towards the Author of everyone, not shutting ourselves off to any political themselves in love to another. In fact, we can not fully Love. May it be a boost to all of you! ❖ group. That will brings back the people’s trust in us. realize our human dignity unless we do so. Finally, That way we ensure that everyone can feel at home inscribed in our very bodies as male and female, is our Fr. Goraieb is a priest of the Diocese of Phoenix. in the Church. No one will be locked out.” complementary need for another. Man is incomplete The original version of this article was published in “Indeed, the task is indeed not easy; but living in his maleness without woman and visa-versa. This NFP Forum, a publication of the NFP Program of in a democracy, we have to understand to be inde- is the nuptial meaning of the body. the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, pendent concerning our service to society and the As a pastor who works constantly with married cou- Winter/Spring 2004. It is used here with permission. Church.” ❖

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August 7 August 20 October 8 - 12 Retreat Faith & Culture Year of Mercy Tour Sign up for the Legion of Mary Retreat being held 3rd Saturday Speaker Series Saturday August 20th at Knights of Columbus, and Italian Catholic at St. Clare’s Retreat Center, 2381 Laurel Glen Road, 9:30am. Join us each 3rd Saturday at the crossroads of Federation, Napa. 5 days, $1500. 4 or 5 star hotels, Soquel, CA, from August 5-7. The retreat master will faith and culture. Saturday August 20th Peter Kreeft, Airfare included from anywhere, all breakfasts and be Fr. Gary Sumpter. The cost of $150 will cover 2 philosopher and bestselling author will be the speaker. tour fees. Spiritual Director Bro. Paul McCarthy. nights and a total of 6 meals. (Please let us know if you St. Apollinaris Catholic Church Hall 3700 Lassen St Napa Call (855) 842-8001. cannot climb stairs or if you are on a special diet.) To Ca 94558. Free of charge, all are welcome. Upcoming www.proximotravel.com register, go to: stclaresreteatcenter.com or call: dates and speakers: September 17: Mark Brumley, (831) 423-8093. October 15: Vinny Flynn, author of seven secrets of October 22 Divine Mercy. Sarah Hart Workshop August 7 Resurrection Parish of Santa Rosa will host a Knights of Columbus BBQ August 21 - September 10 workshop conducted by Sarah Hart Saturday At St. Eugene’s. The Knights of Columbus are having St. Mary’s Arcata 20th Anniversary Celebration October 22nd at 9am. Sarah Hart most recently their Annual Barbecue on Sunday, August 7, in the Wednesday, August 21 – Thursday, September 8: released Til The Song Is Sung, her ninth as PLC. Menu includes half a chicken, coleslaw, chili Novena prayer to begin each evening at 6:30pm. Friday, a solo artist. That collection of songs, captured beans, bread roll & ice cream. September 9: Dinner in Leavey Hall at 6:30pm. Saturday, with Nashville producer Paul Moak, comes during September 10: Mass at 6:30pm celebrated by Bishop a fruitful songwriting season for Hart. Amy Grant, August 20 Vasa, Dedication of Church Meeting Room, candle-lit Celtic Woman, Matt Maher, Audrey Assad and Santa Rosa Religious Education Congress procession, and rosary. The Newsboys are among those who’ve recorded Saturday, August 20, 2016, at Cardinal Newman High her songs, and Grant’s recording of “Better Than School. Bishop Robert Vasa: “Jesus is the Merciful Face August 27 a Hallelujah” earned Hart a Best Gospel Song of the Father: Forming Hearts & Consciences” There is Solemn Mass and Procession in Honor of Grammy nomination. She has also had several song much confusion today about a proper understanding Santa Rosa Patronness of America, placements in film and television, and her songs of conscience. In this talk, Bishop Vasa will address Philipines, and Our Diocese appear in hymnals all across the world. Resurrection the nature of conscience according to the mind of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish 2725 Elm St. Napa. Saturday Parish is located at 303 Stony Point Road. the Church and how con-science is correctly formed, August 27th 4pm Solemn Bilingual Mass, 5:30pm Phone: (707) 544-7272 especially during the Jubilee Year of Mercy. Procession, 7pm Food Sale. Ongoing Offerings August 27 - September 3 Mother Teresa Display Every Saturday An exhibit on Blessed Teresa of Calcutta in anticipation Morning of Prayer of her Sept. 4 canonization will be available at St. St. Helena Catholic Church, St. Helena. 9am-10am, Mary’s Cathedral, Cathedral Hall, Gough Street at Geary Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and individual Boulevard, San Francisco, 9am- 5pm, Aug. 27, 28 and confessions; daily Mass at 10am followed by the Sept. 3; the exhibit is open 3-5:30pm. Aug. 29 through Rosary. All are invited to begin their weekend with Sept. 2. A Mass of thanksgiving with Archbishop some quiet time before our Lord in the Blessed Salvatore J. Cordileone as principal celebrant and Sacrament. Come for all or part of the morning. homilist will be celebrated Sept. 4 at 11am at the English track: Peter Kreeft: “Two Kinds of Mercy in cathedral; (415) 567-2020. Oakville House of Prayer (Carmelite Monastery) the Year of Mercy.” Margaret Turek: “Film and Faith: Morning Of Recollection every first Saturday of the Finding God at the Movies” and “The Spirituality of September 10 month; Spiritual Talk 9-10am; Confessions 10-11am; Merc y.” Fr. John Boettcher: Enkindling of Love: A St. Patrick’s Seminary Gala 2016 Mass 11am. Vision for the Spiritual Life both Practical and Mystical.” 5pm - Vespers, 5:30pm - Tours and cocktails, 6:30pm Bible Study Tuesdays with Father Michael Buckley, Mark Brumley: “Managing Mercy in the Year of Mercy” dinner. Honoring the Knights of Columbus. Online O.C. D. 8:30, following the 8:00am Mass. and “’Tough Mercy’ and the Family.” Steve Cortright: registration available at www.stpsu.edu. Confessions (English) “Up from ‘The Religion of the Day’ to the Gospel of Monday, Wednesday, Friday; 10-12pm, 3-5pm, Christ Jesus: Arming Collegians for Faithfulness.” September 24 8-9pm Rich Curran: “Changing the Wine Skins: Examine our Marriage Conference Confessions (Spanish) Paradigm to Achieve 21st Century Discipleship” and “Together in Holiness” archdiocesan Catholic Wednesday 10-12pm, 3-5pm, 8-9pm “The Courageous Parish.” Sr. Maria Faustina, MSSR: marriage conference, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., “Family as a 20 Mount Carmel Drive, Oakville, CA (707) 944-2454 “Memoirs of World Youth Day During the Jubilee Domestic Church,” presentations, Mass, eucharistic www.oakvillecarmelites.org Year of Mercy: An Experience of God’s Merciful Love adoration, and reconciliation; Archbishop Salvatore in Action.” John Galten: “St. John Paul II’s J. Cordileone; former model Leah Darrow are among Veritatis Splendor.” Joseph Hollcraft: “Unchartered the speakers; $40/couple through Aug. 31 then $50/ Territory.” Sr. Mary Rose Mank, MSSR: “We are Called couple, $40/newlyweds, $30/individual, free child care, and Chosen to be His ‘Face’” and “Merciful Quotes to preregistration required; www.TogetherInHoliness.org; Live By, According to His Holiness Pope Francis.” [email protected]. Spanish track: Jesse Romero: “25 Razones y beneficios porque debo ir a la iglesia y que hace la October 5 -16 oración al cerebro,” and “Por que El Señor no contesta Holy Year Tour to Italy mis oraciones?” Osvaldo Guzmán: “La Moral de la St. Apollinaris Parish of Napa is sponsoring a Holy Year Iglesia” and “Formación de la Conciencia.” Fr. Juan Tour to Italy for 12 days October 5-16. All are welcome Carlos Chiarinoti: “El año jubilar de la Misericordia.” to join. The trip includes many famous, as well as holy, Fr. Oscar Diaz: “Jesus es el rostro Misericordioso del sites beginning with Sacri Monti di Osuccio, one of Padre: Formando Corazones y Conciencias.” Fr. Juan the seven Sacred Mountains of northern Italy in the Carlos Gavancho: “La Doctrina de la Iglesia es un acto Italian Lake District. This is a UNESCO World-Heritage de misericordia.” site overlooking Lake Como, the first stop. For more For more information or to register, contact the information contact Susan Powers Kennelly, Diocesan Office for Religious Education: Phone: (707) 257-1804 or [email protected] (707) 566-3366 Email: [email protected]

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Track Olympian August 20, 2016 Each program is designed to nurture individual Religious Education Conference at charisms and emphasize listening to God’s call Cardinal Newman in serving the poor (Eureka Mission Trip), Relies on God With “youth ministry” track. This year will fea- encountering Christ and the Apostles (Camp ture nationally acclaimed speaker: Rich Curran. 12), discipleship/mission (Youth on a Mission), and large celebration of the Sacraments in the September 10, 2016 universal church (Steubenville Conference). when Times Santa Rosa Diocese Pilgrim Day 12:00 Noon prayer at each local Holy Door. Parishes sending more than one teen: St. Mary Immaculate September 17 2016 St. Bernard get Tough OnFire NorCal Jam St. Elizabeth Seton (Rohnert Park) At Six Flags Discovery Museum, Vallejo. St. James by Tonia Borsellino St. John the Baptist (Healdsburg) Our Lady of Good Counsel Resurrection Newark, N.J., July 24, 2016 (CNA/EWTN News) - St. Apollinaris Sydney McLaughlin has not had an easy year. St. Helena In recent months, she fell ill with mononucleosis, St. John the Baptist (Napa) her mother suffered a heart attack, and she underwent Our Lady Queen of Peace a nervous breakdown before a major qualifying track Summer Youth Ministry Update St. Vincent competition. for Santa Rosa So when she became the youngest member of the 20 of our 43 parishes sent youth to our summer U.S. Olympic track and field team on July 10, the programs. Thank You parish youth leaders and Register @ www.srdiocese.org/ victory was extra sweet. pastors for making personal invitations to our Youth_Ministry_Events What gets 16-year-old McLaughlin through the young people. Please pray for these teens to Or search online: stress and pressure that inevitably comes with com- progress in their relationship with Christ and Santa Rosa Catholic Youth Event. peting with some of the world’s top athletes? Her their Catholic faith. Or, call: (707) 566-3371 Christian faith. “Something like track is a very mental sport,” she told CNA during a press teleconference, “there’s a lot of pressure and there’s a lot of expectation put on you.” “Sticking to what I know and believing that every- thing I’ve been given comes from God definitely The Human Person - A Dignity Beyond Compare played a big role for me,” she said. On July 10, McLaughlin finished third in the 400- An Introduction to St. John Paul II’s meter hurdles at the U.S. trials in Oregon. That made Presented by Mr. John Galten her the youngest member on the U.S. track and field Theology of the Body, team for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Sponsored by the Diocesan Department of Religious Education (see Youngest US Olympian, p. 24) A class which will examine the crisis of our age in the form of the dignity of the human person and its implications for an understanding of human love. With his gift to the Church of the Theology of the Body, St. John Paul deep-ened our understanding of the human person, bringing together the Church’s traditional view of the human person with new insights he had acquired in response to some of the problems we face in modern times. The texts for the course are: The Human Person – Dignity Beyond Compare by Sr. Terese Auer, O.P., Man and Woman He Created Them, 2nd ed., by St. John Paul II.

• The course is designed for teaching adults, but all are welcome. • The cost of the course is $75. The two required texts will be provided. • Classes are being held at two locations, Santa Rosa and Eureka. • This course can be used to satisfy some of the renewal requirements for Diocesan certificates. • Contact the Diocesan Department of Religious Education for an application.

St. Bernard CLASS SUMMARY 222 Dillison St, Eureka & SCHEDULE Monday’s 6pm-9pm Introduction and Course Overview September 26 An Overview of the Philosophy of the Human Person September 26 Man In the Beginning November 7 “Male and Female He Created Them” December 5 Man After the Fall February 6, 2017 Man After Redemption April 3, 2017 Living as Redeemed Man June 5, 2017 Conclusion June 5, 2017

To Apply Contact: Carmen Perez Aanenson, McLaughlin said she includes prayer in her warm-up Department of Religious Studies - P.O. Box 1297, Santa Rosa, CA 95402 before every meet and then goes out there and does what [email protected] / (707) 566-3366 / Fax (707 542-9702 / www.santarosacatholic.org she knows she can, “regardless of what happens.

NORTH COAST CATHOLIC / AUGUST 2016 / www.srdiocese.org 23 (Youngest US Olympian, cont. from page 23) Brazil this month. Formation & Certification 2016-2017 Originally from Dunellen, New Jersey, McLaughlin Adult Faith St. Bernard School attends Union Catholic High School in Scotch Plains. CNHS Eureka Our Lady As a Christian, the young Olympian explained Santa Rosa Fridays of Good Counsel 10am-12pm/1-3pm (BC) 6:30pm-9:30pm that her faith in God has helped her throughout the (MC Only) 9am-12pm/1-3:30pm (MC) Saturdays 9am-3:30pm journey. Lunch 12pm 9am-3:30pm SCHEDULE Lunch 12pm She described the pressure and expectations lead- Orientation, Introduction, ing up to the qualifying Olympic trials as much more September 24 September 23 August 6 & Spirituality of Catechesis than a typical meet. The Creed & Christology/Ecclesiology, Mary & “It became overwhelming at one point,” she said. October 22 September 24 August 6 Saints It’s a competition with the best of the best, added Liturgy & Sacraments of Initiation November 19 November 4 October 1 her father, Willie McLaughlin. He said the experience Sacraments of Healing & Services December 17 November 5 October 1 was similar for him. Principles & Methods January 28, 2017 December 2 January 7, 2017 In 1984, he qualified for the 400-meter semifinals History of Catechesis/Intro to Ecclesial Method February 25 December 3 January 7 at the Olympic trials but failed to make the Olympic Moral Life in Christ: Foundations March 25 February 3, 2017 March 18 team. Ten Commandments & Conscience Formation April 22 or 29 February 4 March 18 “Running the Olympic trials was the single most May 27 March 31 May 20 stressful thing I’ve ever done in my life. Hands down.” Christian Prayer June 24 April 1 May 20 McLaughlin’s mother was also a runner and her Observation/Practicum July 22 TBA TBA older brother, Taylor McLaughlin, currently competes in the 400-meter hurdles for Michigan University. • Adult Formation $150.00/person for entire program, includes some books. (not interested in certification) The young athlete said that she only found the • Basic Catechist (BC) $150.00/person for entire program, includes some books. courage to compete with the help of her family and • Master Catechist (MC) $175.00/person for entire program, includes some books. (In-depth study, advance seminar & coaches. Despite panicking at the Olympic trials and teaching practicum. Prerequisite: Basic Catechist Certification) nearly turning back, McLaughlin ended up setting a • For those interested in dropping in $20 person/class, not including books. world junior record at 54.14 seconds. • There will be various books available to purchase. The Class fee does not include all books. The fact that the trials were at night made her think • Those who wish to attend and are not interested in receiving a California Certificate are welcome, but must register. about the big race all day. To get on the line at the first • Class can be used as credit towards Catechist Recertification. race and go from round to round, somehow making • Complete an Application to begin the Adult formation or California Catechist Process or Register for class. the team, “definitely showed this is God’s plan for me.” Sponsored by the Diocesan Department of Religious Education She sealed her place on the U.S. Olympic team To apply & for registrations, contact: Carmen Aanenson earlier than she and her family anticipated. The Olympics “has always been on my mind but [email protected] | (707) 566-3366 | www.santarosacatholic.org 8/16 not at the age of 16,” she said. Her father agreed that it was something they always talked about, but had not expected so quickly. “We knew there was an outside chance of her making it, you know things happening the way they Formación de fe y Certificación 2016 - 2017 did, she ended up getting on the team,” he said, “We Adultos St. Bernard School CNHS Eureka didn’t think it would be this soon.” Our Lady Santa Rosa Fridays Now, her parents are also figuring out plans to get of Good Counsel 10am-12pm/1-3pm (BC) 6:30pm-9:30pm (MC Only) to Rio, in order to see their daughter fulfill a dream 9am-12pm/1-3:30pm (MC) Saturdays 9am-3:30pm Lunch 12pm 9am-3:30pm they had always envisioned. PROGRAMA Lunch 12pm McLaughlin said she includes prayer in her warm- Orientación, Introducción y Espiritualidad de la sep. 24 sep. 23 aug. 6 up before every meet and then goes out there and catequesis does what she knows she can, “regardless of what El Credo y Cristología/Eclesiología, Virgen María y oct. 22 sep. 24 aug. 6 happens.” los Santos The fact that there are always more races to run and Liturgia y Sacramentos de Iniciación nov. 19 nov. 4 oct. 1 Sacramentos de Sanación y Servicio dic. 17 nov. 5 oct. 1 a “chance to do it better” motivates her to keep going. Principales & Metodología enero 28, 2017 dic. 2 enero 7, 2017 After the trials, McLaughlin attended the ESPY Historia de la catequesis y Introducción a la Awards and received an award for being named the feb. 25 dic. 3 enero 7 Eclesiología Gatorade National High School Female Athlete of the La vida moral en Cristo: formación marzo 25 feb. 3, 2017 marzo 18 Year. She gave a speech and talked about the obstacles Los Diez Mandamientos y Formación de la she had faced throughout the previous year. abril 22 or 29 feb. 4 marzo 18 Consciencia A busload of people from Union Catholic High La doctrina social católica mayo 27 marzo 31 mayo 20 School was at the airport in New Jersey ready to La oración cristiana junio 24 abril 1 mayo 20 welcome her back home. Observaciones julio 22 TBA TBA On August 7, McLaughlin will turn 17. She said she is going to miss the Opening Ceremonies to celebrate • Formación para adultos $150.00/por persona para toda la serie. Algunos libros están incluidos. No estoy interesado en la certificación. • Catequista básico (BC) $150.00/por persona para toda la serie. Algunos libros están incluidos. with her family and friends. • Catequista Maestro (MC) $175.00/por persona para toda la serie. Algunos libros están incluidos. (Estudio en profundidad, seminario. Then, she will fly to the Olympics with her lucky avanzado y practica docente. Requisito: Certificado básico) blanket, a sparkly manicure, and the faith that what- • Para aquellos interesados en ir a solamente una clase el costo es $20 por clase, no incluye los libros. ever happens, it will be according to God’s plan. • Habrá varios libros disponibles para comprar. La tarifa de la clase no incluye el costo de estos libros. In the fall, McLaughlin will return to school for her • Aquellos que deseen asistir y no están interesados en recibir un certificado de catequista son bienvenidos, pero se debe registrar. senior year. Her goal is to build up a different school • Clase se puede utilizar para la recertificación del catequista. club: juggling. • Llene una solicitud para iniciar el proceso de certificación de catequista o registrase para clase. “I’m going to focus on that a lot this year, try to get Patrocinado por el Departamento de Educación Religiosa more members, hopefully pull a squad together so we can perform at the pep rally.” Para mas información o para registrase, póngase en contacto con Carmen Perez Aanenson Only then, she will be an Olympian juggling on a [email protected] | (707) 566-3366 | www.santarosacatholic.org 8/16 unicycle. ❖

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